Mazin

Used to play poker now I build things and fly planes.

🍷 relay: wss://nostr.wine
🎥 relay: wss://creatr.nostr.wine
Filter and API: https://docs.nostr.wine
Translations: https://translate.nostr.wine

Public Key

npub18kzz4lkdtc5n729kvfunxuz287uvu9f64ywhjz43ra482t2y5sks0mx5sz

NIP-05 Address

_@mazinkhoury.com

NIP-57 Address

mazin@pay.nostr.wine

Profile Code

nprofile1qqsrmpp2lmx4u2fl9zmxy7fnwp9rlwxwz5a2j8tep2c376n494z2gtgpzamhxue69uhkxetvd3shytnwdaehgu3wwa5kuegpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejsue4xsu

Publishing to

cellar.nostr.wine

nostr.wine

Author Public Key

npub18kzz4lkdtc5n729kvfunxuz287uvu9f64ywhjz43ra482t2y5sks0mx5sz

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Last Notes

2025-04-01 10:58:16

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For some reason the same handful of people are always telling me my relays are broken or full of spam when they have never been. Please send me IDs if you have a real concern - don’t just spread nonsense.
Of course we take spam seriously and of course we limit who can post replies to nostr.wine
Our pricing model has been quite successful and we continue to be the largest and most reliable paid relay on nostr 🍷

2025-03-04 15:22:56

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We may eventually but I don’t have any timeline atm. You can send individual delete requests for events.

2025-02-25 15:39:32

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We could also argue the PR not getting merged killed mutiny. Both equally fair 😂

2025-02-25 15:11:54

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I too get the same vibe. He has no interest in arguing in the NIP trenches.
Give me your finished spec and I’ll implement it. I feel the same way the vast majority of the time.

2025-02-25 15:09:50

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Well 2 of those implementations were Mutiny Wallet run so the proposal has died with them it seems. They were the only wallet provider that supported it. Alby used to say they would implement it (and presumably would if it had been merged). Now it feels fully abandoned.
We have just moved on with using the flawed onboarding flow and as such virtually no services interact with NWC at all.
I don’t think it can be merged as is anymore unfortunately. I think Alby is working on some other flow now 🤷‍♂️

2025-02-25 14:39:42

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Ben did a lot of nagging back when he was actively trying to get it merged. He responded to a lot of feedback and kept pushing it for months.
There isn’t even much constructive feedback in the thread just a lot of confusion. The proposal was (more or less) ready to merge from the beginning and was quickly supported by multiple implementations (both on wallet and service side).

2025-02-12 15:25:47

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Appreciate the kind words!
I usually try to build some revenue generating part in to the MVP and then focus on the projects where there is user demand.
I’ve never applied for or taken any grants or VC money (on nostr or any other outside project) so this forces you to focus on revenue and some type of business plan earlier.
Doesn’t always work but helps to keep me from going too deep down a rabbit hole that nobody is willing to buy.

2025-02-06 17:59:17

I need to go clean the plane but having some serious motivation issues.
What’s your strategy for getting out of the house on lazy days?

2025-02-06 17:47:13

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Heh - actually the regex in the php library doesn’t even validate if there is a reason phrase, only that there is a space after the status code. That regex leaves a lot to be desired and it’s an easy fix for them!

2025-02-06 17:39:30

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We took a long look at this today. There are multiple layers of our tech stack that do not support reason phrases anymore. There are some ways for us to hack it back in, but given that reason phrases are optional and not required by any other client or the spec, this would be a considerable amount of work with limited gain.
It seems like this php library doesn’t do anything with the reason phrase besides check that it exists so perhaps it should be made optional there?

2025-02-01 21:05:26

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Any idea what the issue is? We updated it when they added CLOSED.
When a REQ is sent that requires AUTH and the connection isn’t authenticated, we send an AUTH challenge and a CLOSED with "auth-required: this relay only serves private notes to authenticated users"
I believe that is the expectation in NIP-42 - unless it changed again.

2025-01-31 18:50:44

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I’m open to it but have concerns about moderation. Hosting media has more legal complications. I’ll do some research 🧐

2025-01-30 23:25:43

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https://youtu.be/_3gD_lnBNu0

2025-01-30 19:51:39

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https://youtu.be/r90Xw3tQC0I

2025-01-28 01:56:27

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Thanks @npub1kms…tjep
Right now the creator tools are only available through the web with a browser extension or bunker login. You can use nostore on iOS as a browser extension with safari or nsec.app as a bunker.
On the user side, the content is designed to be consumed through whatever nostr client the user prefers. Our website is just a proof of concept.

2025-01-24 14:54:09

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We made something like uptime robot but specifically for nostr relays called @npub1wsg…mlse
Not public like nostr.watch though. More of a tool for relay operators to monitor uptime and req/write latency.

2025-01-15 02:27:35

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Yessir 🫡 🍷

2025-01-11 23:11:12

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Thanks for the kind words! Let me know if you have any questions @npub1tla…x3y7

2025-01-10 02:56:56

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Yeah. Ended up being an expensive bounty we paid for a partial implementation 😂

2025-01-09 16:03:36

Moving my plane in to a shiny new hangar today 🎊 https://i.nostr.build/GJ4ifb2bndup5IPa.jpg https://i.nostr.build/tkVthZ26aM8HX41S.jpg https://i.nostr.build/VaWtNAxCBkU55wJV.jpg

2025-01-06 15:01:45

Purgatory helps us keep filter.nostr.wine free from spam while aggregating events from large free relays.
New users still have a way in and we preserve their events in purgatory so that when they are approved all their event history is immediately available on our relay. #note1dcq…edem

2025-01-05 16:15:23

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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/27/upshot/airlines-flight-times-padding.html

2025-01-05 16:11:48

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Worse! Lots of extra time packed in to those flights. That’s why you almost always arrive early when you leave on time.

2025-01-05 15:49:37

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Also travel time per leg already includes so much extra taxi/dep/in route delay/arrival/taxi time that the 70-80% on time metric is a scam to begin with.

2025-01-04 00:59:47

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Let me know if you have any issues! It’s been stable for nearly a year now I think.

2025-01-04 00:49:02

👋 https://i.nostr.build/q3RTiGkGGvSrpjCO.jpg

2025-01-04 00:47:10

If you run a relay or care about the uptime of one… #note1r49…jf0r

2025-01-03 16:09:18

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We don’t have any intentional restrictions on those kinds. What kind of notice/error are you seeing?

2025-01-03 16:07:47

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Done! There is now an initial alert event if the new relay is down + an “unknown” white circle instead of the red down indication on your dashboard.
I also added 3 months of PRO to your npub so you can see the read/write query times as well + more history. Thanks for trying it!

2025-01-03 15:14:50

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I’ll have to double check but I believe the logic is you only get notified on changes, so that makes sense if it is still down.
More of a reason to add a third unknown status. I’ll do that today!

2025-01-03 14:58:59

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Brief restart in progress to update that machine now that we are talking about it :)

2025-01-03 14:53:47

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There is also a known bug where if the application breaks for any reason it triggers an offline/online alert for all the relays. Usually less than one a month. Besides that it’s been mostly stable for a year.
I’ll fix a few things when I get a chance though! Let me know if you have other ideas or issues.

2025-01-03 14:51:36

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Good suggestion - there’s a good amount of work that needs to be done to professionalize this but I am currently the main user and it works good enough for me :)
I have limited time to dedicate to nostr so I try to focus on our more regularly used products.
It is working for me at the moment. 10 min checks happen on the XX:X0.

2025-01-03 14:10:57

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@npub1wsg…mlse is free 😉

2025-01-01 01:50:35

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🍷🍷

2025-01-01 01:50:28

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Appreciate that - thanks for the support 🍷

2025-01-01 01:50:03

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🫂 🍷

2025-01-01 01:49:50

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🍷💜

2024-12-31 23:55:32

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🍷🍷🍷

2024-12-31 23:53:43

Happy New Years #nostr
Really proud of the reliability across all of our nostr.wine products this year. Let’s run it back next year 🥂

2024-12-24 23:38:37

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays friends. 🎅🎊

2024-12-20 16:09:33

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That's exactly it and I figured that was the case after you said that. I just deployed a change and extended your account for you. I also DM’d you the details!

2024-12-20 15:55:32

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Thanks Daniel. @npub1k6f…tryn I’ll take a look for you in a few min and send you a DM.

2024-12-10 00:52:36

Good evening nostr. Climbing through 19k feet this evening on my way across the pond ✈️

2024-12-02 03:35:29

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Thanks for the kind words 🍷

2024-12-01 20:51:30

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Thanks for the awesome review! I’m really glad to hear it’s working for you as intended. Let us know if you ever have feedback/future feature requests.

2024-11-20 23:05:22

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Welcome 🍷

2024-11-11 21:55:27

🍷 Glad to hear you like it - sorry it took us so long! #note1qhc…usax

2024-11-11 15:08:03

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Thanks @npub17nd…950x
I’ll send you a DM and we can chat further!
@npub1cre…feh6 is far from perfect and is certainly not a YouTube replacement but it’s a MVP we’ve built to showcase paywalled content on nostr through a relay (wss://creatr.nostr.wine) that works(ish) out of the box on most popular clients.
The website is basically just a micro client example for subscribers/fans/viewers and a place for Creators to manage their files/posts.

2024-11-06 05:54:45

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Hey - I can see your account is active and you your notes are being archived on cellar. Those errors you’re seeing are likely because Amethyst tries to rebroadcast the notes you are replying to when you respond, and those events are being rejected - not yours.
We need to improve this so we ignore messages that aren’t from the authenticated user. I’ll take care of that later this week. But don’t sweat the errors - everything is working for you and your notes.

2024-11-05 21:01:46

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From what I can see, you joined on 2023-03-06 at 23:33 and paid 18888 🍷

2024-11-05 19:50:15

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No - but, I can look it up if I can find it. We were using nostream back then but I did copy over the invoices table I believe.

2024-11-05 19:48:58

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Thanks! It’s my least favorite part so it gets the least attention unfortunately.

2024-11-05 19:47:20

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Also fun fact: the fee was originally 888 sats, then became 8888, then finally 18888.
I “paid” for 100+ entries back in the day. Lots of nostr OGs got in for free!

2024-11-05 17:18:44

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Yes, what @npub1fjq…leku said! And now you can Sign in on https://nostr.wine and see your dates/balances of all our relays.

2024-11-05 16:59:53

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It is a one time write access fee.

2024-11-04 22:46:34

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Try again now please.

2024-11-04 22:38:39

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I actually saw those errors come through but didn’t have a chance to chase them down yet. I’ll take a look and circle back shortly.

2024-11-04 19:56:03

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I suppose it is. I don’t know what the naming convention was like back when we named this but we think of it as a users personal “mailbox”. Inbox seemed like a reasonable name for a place where you can read private messages addressed to you.
The whole NIP-65 inbox/outbox terminology confuses me quite a bit as well.

2024-11-04 19:54:11

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Honestly the only Mac/iOS app I know of that works well with AUTH is Nostur. https://github.com/nostur-com/nostur-ios-public
Damus works ok for most things but it does not handle AUTH race conditions or CLOSED messages correctly so it loses initial filters that it doesn’t retry making the notifications/DMs inconsistent.
I can’t stand any of the web clients tbh.

2024-11-04 19:23:03

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In addition to the normal free relays we broadcast notes to we also follow NIP-65 which states:
“When broadcasting an event, Clients SHOULD:
Broadcast the event to the WRITE relays of the author
Broadcast the event to all READ relays of each tagged user”
However, we have to have some limits to avoid spamming notes out like crazy. As such, we only do this additional broadcasting to the first 5 tagged users of each note and only to a max of 4 “read” relays per npub.
Keep the questions coming! Happy to answer 🍷

2024-11-04 14:55:50

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I believe it’s Vitor’s guide. #naddr1qq…cq4q

2024-11-04 13:36:15

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Thanks Boston!
I am certainly not an expert when it comes to Amethyst relay settings but you are right about how filter works.
Filter reads from (and deduplicates) and broadcasts to a list of public relays so that you don’t need to make all those individual connections.
Filter also broadcast notes to 3 of the recipients (tagged users) NIP-65 relays.
Though filter will not accept notes directly from non-subscribers (and thus shouldn’t be placed in an inbox/outbox list, it will pick up notes that come through any of the public relays automatically.
Without knowing for sure, the way you’ve set it up sounds correct to me!
In case you need more info about filter there is a fairly long readme here: https://filter.nostr.wine

2024-11-01 13:06:24

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I’m having a hard time not reading it the same way…
Sure, it’s nuanced, but the takeaway is the same. If you vote 3rd party you’re “part of the problem” but don’t worry if we all just keep voting for status quo we’ll be able to change policy after the election. Does anyone actually believe that?

2024-10-30 13:52:54

Looks like everything is back up. Will monitor to make sure it stays up. #note1dnl…awlm

2024-10-30 13:42:56

One of our hosting providers is having a massive west coast outage. We are trying to get more information from them at this time. They are total clowns.

2024-10-28 17:47:15

Forgot to say - everything is back up! Only took 5 minutes or so… 🍷 #note1sxd…sqxk

2024-10-28 14:45:32

Rolling restarts across a few services in progress for updates!

2024-10-28 03:12:28

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filter.nostr.wine is a subscription aggregator/broadcaster relay with an optional WoT global filter. https://docs.nostr.wine/filter/readme
nostr.wine is our regular paid relay. Free to read, pay to write.

2024-10-20 14:46:46

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😂

2024-10-20 12:45:30

Welcome, Jake! The magic of bitcoin never ceases to amaze. 🍷 #note10d7…qe43

2024-10-19 15:42:44

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We started working on a RaaS platform a while back but haven’t had time to finish it. I’ll try to refocus on that when I get a free moment.

2024-10-19 01:38:45

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RelayGuardian.com - its free too!

2024-10-18 14:43:00

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And yea, the spacing thing is more of a bug than “clients not showing kind 1 notes the same”

2024-10-18 14:41:46

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I get your frustration, but even where to display images is a client choice. Some users prefer them in-line and some users prefer them in a carousel at the bottom. Different clients will suit different needs.
If nostr requires client conformity to succeed it is a failure out of the box.

2024-10-18 14:04:46

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There will never be client consensus on nostr. Dare I say that’s the entire point…

2024-10-16 17:35:10

Ooof after 5 days of fever I’m finally starting to come back to life.
I know I’m a bit behind on responding to people and new projects but I’ll be back soon 🫡

2024-10-14 12:35:46

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Thanks! Sorry about that @npub1y2s…vr89 - I broke the form a while back and got distracted with other things. I’ll DM you.

2024-10-11 13:38:34

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Hey! I believe nostrudel has a setting somewhere that you need to enable somewhere for it to automatically AUTH to a relay. I’m not exactly sure where though.

2024-10-06 13:26:37

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Thanks for your support 🍷🫡

2024-10-05 23:35:52

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All over the US 🫡

2024-10-05 23:35:27

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They wouldn’t let me :(

2024-10-05 23:26:23

Caught this bird ready to depart on my way out. https://i.nostr.build/9gaIgSfM74WEG1fT.jpg

2024-10-04 12:13:00

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Yes, sounds correct to me! The filter.nostr.wine relay will stop serving notes to you/broadcasting your notes if your subscription expires.
The nostr.wine normal paid relay is still just a one time write access fee so that will keep working normally.

2024-10-03 14:34:01

First year in the books for 🍷 cellar.nostr.wine.
Thanks as always for your support @npub134l…elwh ! #note1th2…gny6

2024-09-29 00:47:02

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😂 cheers 🍷

2024-09-29 00:42:26

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🍷🫡

2024-09-28 17:33:16

Reminder: if you prefer to stay in your favorite nostr client, you can DM our bot @npub1fyv…sfuk for the same information! DM /help for a list of commands. #note1g8x…8qzp

2024-09-28 15:41:43

Fascinating and terrifying… https://www.evilsocket.net/2024/09/26/Attacking-UNIX-systems-via-CUPS-Part-I/

2024-09-27 16:45:14

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I was wrong - works fine for me. I was just using the wrong pubkey.
Yes, it must be this @npub1clk…pup9

2024-09-27 16:33:05

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Hmmm - me neither, but yes it should. I’ll try to figure out why…

2024-09-27 16:14:03

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What happened to my numbering…
After 3 comes 4 - you get the idea 😂

2024-09-27 16:12:33

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The idea is to standardize everything so that nobody has to implement a bunch of proprietary APIs. I certainly get the appeal of that but the design is wasteful and slow.
Lots of the services “offered” by DVMs are just wrapping centralized services with more latency. For example, most search DVMs just use NIP-50 on one or more of the 3 search relay implementations. Using this instead of connecting directly to the relay(s) is so much more work.
With NIP-50:
1. Connect to search relay
2. Open search filter
3. Relay finds matching events and returns them
3. Display returned events
With DVMs:
1. Make a DVM request event
2. DVM makes NIP-50/search API request
3: DVM parses just the event IDs and returns a list of those in a nostr event
4. Client pulls response event and requests event IDs from all relays? Some relays? Only the NIP-50 relay(s) that supplied the DVM with the results?
5. Relay(s) finds matching events and return them
6. Client displays events
🤯

2024-09-27 15:58:10

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We have over 100k “feedback” events from DVMs on our aggregator that just say something along the lines of “I’m processing your task”
Absurd waste.

2024-09-27 15:35:38

Just added a new “Members Area” on https://nostr.wine where you can view and manage your subscriptions/balances for Filter, Inbox, and Cellar! Click the “Sign In” button in the top right corner to access the page.
We will be adding additional settings and configurable options here in the future. Let me know if you have any feedback or issues.

2024-09-26 16:09:38

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Lots to digest here but I’ll do the best I can without writing too much.
First, and most importantly, primal is not a normal nostr client that sources events exclusively from relays. They have their own caching relay that is not comparable with the protocol and they rely on it heavily for loading notes within the app. The network was recently under a spam attack that caused lots of problems for their cache. That could explain harsher rejection criteria for their relay or some of the missing content issues you’re describing.
- relay.nostr.band is an aggregator that reads from other relays so even if you do not write directly to that relay it will likely have your events eventually.
- relay.snort.social is a paid subscription relay, you have to pay to write
- nos.lol has some of your latest posts. Not sure when they appeared though.
I’m not sure about the other relays you tried. I think primal sets a random list of 10 which is a very poor way of doing relays selection. Lots of relays are slow, frequently offline, or outright broken.
I would encourage you to try another client first to see if that improves your experience. In addition you could consider adding a paid relay to improve your reach and loading speed. @npub1qlk…lf5y and I run a paid relay called nostr.wine so I am biased but don’t take my word for it - ask or look around for recommendations.
Welcome to #nostr I hope it get easier from here!

2024-09-25 23:15:48

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I'm glad we figured it out.

2024-09-25 23:14:39

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Heh - we actually don’t log invalid form submission there because crawlers do it constantly. I can re-deploy it with temp logging there if we absolutely have to.
I put in your npub and I get the credit card page without any issues for several devices and different browsers.
If you’re using an nprofile or something instead of a valid npub - that would explain the error so thats why I asked.

2024-09-25 23:09:26

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The follows+follows global filter is enabled by default. You can disable it by adding ?global=all to the end of your relay URL.
wss://filter.nostr.wine?global=all
We are going to make these options available via a new Members Area section on our website fairly soon as well. Let me know if you have other questions!

2024-09-25 23:07:55

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The only validation on that form is that you’ve entered a valid pubkey (npub or hex). What are you putting in on the front page?