When the nostr white paper was published in 2020, fiatjaf described relays as deliberately simple (and dumb). They accept posts from users, store them, and forward them to others who ask. Anyone can run a relay, and users can connect to whichever ones they choose through their nostr client. The minimal design gives the network its resilience: there is no single point of failure, no gatekeeper who can silence a user across the entire system, and no platform to shut down.
As the network grows, so do the demands on this layer. OpenSats has funded relay-focused projects through The Nostr Fund since 2023, supporting developers who are building the software that runs relays and the frameworks that help others build new ones. These projects also include monitoring and hosting tools that make relay operation more accessible, personal relay applications that give users direct ownership of their data, and content filtering and feed intelligence that help people find what they care about.
This report highlights ten of those projects, covering work across five areas:
- Relay Software and Infrastructure
- Relay Discovery, Monitoring, and Hosting
- Personal and Portable Relays
- Access and Content Distribution
- Relay Intelligence, Filtering, and Logic
Let's take a closer look at how each of these projects has made an impact over the past year.
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I've been meaning to tell you this for a while, but I keep forgetting. It's just a small aesthetic tweak. When you create a list on quoted and then there's more text after it, the space between the list and the text is too small.
It doesn't happen in non-quoted text.
Could you make it a bit bigger? I've been using the '#' command to add that space, but I think it's too much.
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