Happy to see I'm not alone with a proxy project!
I've made https://github.com/Dolu89/nostr-proxy. If you want to discuss about proxies in the future, you can DM me npub1txukm7xckhnxkwu450sm59vh2znwm45mewaps4awkef2tvsgh4vsf7phrl or on twitter @Dolu_web
Yeah nice work, I saw that last week. I think it's important to have something like that. Have you gotten a lot of use out of yours? I do worry of too much spam. Also, I should probably keep a list of other proxies to ignore sending to.
Yes it has been used by with an average of ~30 connections and it's a problem.
A proxy shouldn't be public unless relays remove REQ limit for proxy. The next step for nostr is probably a relay market to disable limits for specific clients.
I also have to add limits on my side to not be spammed
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My loose understanding of that is if the pubkey is on the paid whitelist of a certain relay then they should accept the forwarded message from this relay. But there's also an "authenticated" flow for some paid relays and that I believe won't work.
Yeah I think my next step will be to aggregate events from all the relays and proxy the subscription part too but that starts to be a lot of a bigger effort. It feels like serverless works well in the publish side but not intended for sub, but just need to think through it more.
This is awesome! I am interested in the POST endpoint. Can you show example code how to interact with it. Is the endpoint https://nostr.mutinywallet.com/event ? What do you expect in the body?
Nostr relay operators are not going to like this sort of software, because it will be used to magnify spam. In response, relays will likely block connections from Cloudflare IP addresses.
I'll likely implement some spam deterrents on the cloudflare side, but if they block IPs anyways, I'll just implement other proxies until everyone eventually becomes a paid relay.
The nostr wait list and automatic DM we did for Mutiny was kind of cool. Plus I'm experimenting with cloudflare serverless stuff and thought open sourcing what we did would be kind of fun.
I still don't care for social media and I think there's a lot of problems, but there's some thing we may need to use it for which prompted building this proxy.
[{"EVENT", {msg}}]or something like that.