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

nprofile1qqsrmpp2lmx4u2fl9zmxy7fnwp9rlwxwz5a2j8tep2c376n494z2gtgpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejszythwden5te0dehhxarj9emkjmn99u4cr09a

Publishing to

nostr.wine

inbox.nostr.wine

Author Public Key

npub18kzz4lkdtc5n729kvfunxuz287uvu9f64ywhjz43ra482t2y5sks0mx5sz

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Last Notes

2025-05-01 20:45:40

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🍷💜

2025-05-01 13:51:40

The call/response design and storing every single note is absolutely insane. We had to block most DVM kinds from our aggregator.
#note1pd4…m8dg

2025-04-25 02:10:44

Experimental support for multi-user AUTH is now available on nostr.wine and inbox.nostr.wine 🍷
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1881

2025-04-09 00:14:37

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When we introduced the new data pipeline for our aggregator it significantly reduced what welcome.nostr.wine will ingress due to the way it was built.
I haven’t spent any time updating it as many clients added hashtags to initial new user note prompts and it seemed less valuable.
If there’s still interest in that relay I can take a look at what needs to be done to update it.

2025-04-06 01:07:23

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Ok - figured it out. That event is one you replied to, not one that you authored. Amethyst automatically rebroadcasts events when you reply to them. Your notes are on nostr.wine and not affected.

2025-04-06 01:05:44

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I’ll take a look and see if I can figure it out. Hang on!

2025-04-05 17:40:09

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It’s not about data. There are browser, OS (open files), and mobile per-app limitations that prevent opening an unlimited amount of websockets. Even in a perfect nostr world with only reliable high performance relays you will start to bump in to these limits in most places as you exceed 200-300.
As we do not live in this perfect world, I suspect the practical challenges of managing hundreds of different connection and response times with varying reliability in a performant way with an acceptable UX will not be trivial either.

2025-04-05 14:20:26

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If you can build a performant client that connects to 400+ relays when trying to load your following feed I’ll build a nostr church in your name.

2025-04-04 21:29:10

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I’ve only used nostr.wine relays (with most importantly filter.nostr.wine) for ~2 years. I don’t read directly from any free relays. For our aggregator behind Filter, we use a data pipeline we call “Purgatory” to strike a balance between coverage and new pubkey spam. There are tradeoffs but I’m quite pleased with the results we’ve seen thus far. https://i.nostr.build/61SaCp4c3Ns5TjZu.png

2025-04-01 12:05:28

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Nostr.wine has been around for 2 years and I’ve answered many questions - trust me.

2025-04-01 11:52:27

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I read nostr everyday and you tagged me - but you (or anyone else) can keep an eye on https://api.nostr.wine/search?query=nostr.wine if you’re interested 🤣

2025-04-01 11:44:53

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There will always be accounts that blur lines of automation/real. It’s up to users to decide if they value that content not me. Aggressive repetitive spam is what concerns me.
DM spam is harder to “see” but easy to address as an operator. You could rate limit DMs for new sign ups and only slowly increase those limits as time passes without reports.

2025-04-01 11:25:33

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Not really. The reason they are challenging to block on free relays is they can create infinite pubkeys. On nostr.wine each one they create is 18,888 sats. What good is that if everyone mutes you after day 1 of spamming?
Filter.nostr.wine addressed this with our Purgatory data pipeline (quite successfully) since it reads from free relays and does not have the same advantage as nostr.wine.

2025-04-01 11:15:44

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I have a business outside of nostr. So does Katie. We are obviously not living off nostr.wine. We are donating our time and will likely never recoup anything near what we’ve already invested.

2025-04-01 11:11:14

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Brother - there is either spam on the relay or not. If there is provide me with some IDs, if not stop saying there is. The rest is a separate discussion.

2025-04-01 11:05:30

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I’m replying to both of you in a thread filled with inaccuracies.

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 🍷

2025-04-01 10:52:47

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(And never on a paid relay of any sort)

2025-04-01 10:52:01

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And you are 100% certain they are on nostr.wine? I haven’t seen one in legit 6+ months.

2025-04-01 10:47:20

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I’m not seeing it at all so I need some event IDs to look in to it.

2025-03-31 20:51:41

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Not sure what you’re on about as usual. What spam are you seeing? Share some event IDs.

2025-03-11 03:22:21

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Hey - I’ll send you a DM and we’ll figure it out!

2025-03-04 15:45:03

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I can manually delete your events if you’d like but without deletion requests it’s possible for them to be rebroadcasted and stored again.

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 15:38:09

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What model are you using for nsfw detection? We’ve tried a few of the lightweight ones and found them to be really poor on average.

2025-02-25 15:31:23

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Hahah yes but if you read the actual proposal you can’t believe any of these “possibilities”.
The entire purpose is to simple reduce an extra roundtrip from the onboarding process. Instead of having to leave our site, go to your NWC wallet, create and copy a URI, then come back and paste it to us all you have to do is scan a QR code from our website and approve the request on your wallet.
Do you really think this flow improvement killed mutiny? Who knows indeed lol

2025-02-25 15:18:38

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The implementations that worked at the time were listed here: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/851#issuecomment-1879569550

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).

2025-02-25 14:23:09

I’m sad https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/851 never got merged. We built a nostr.wine NWC service that relied on this improved onboarding flow in December of 2023. At the time Mutiny was leading the effort.
I don’t understand why it wasn’t merged then when we had 4 working implementations. It is the only reasonable NWC on-boarding flow I’ve seen for services (like nostr.wine).

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

2025-01-30 14:54:35

Still trying to process last nights DCA mid-air. Horrific. https://youtu.be/CiOybe-NJHk

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.

2025-01-20 19:20:11

Awesome to see some new faces today.
Welcome to #nostr friends 👋🍷

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 ✈️

2024-12-03 12:17:54

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This design has been working well for our aggregator. Not a solution for every public relay of course.
#note1dcq…edem

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