It started innocently.
A simple question: “What relay are you using?”
He answered truthfully: “Uh… whatever the default is?”
Silence.
Then chaos.
Replies poured in explaining that default relays were a trap, that real sovereignty required running your own infrastructure, preferably on hardware rescued from a dumpster behind a data center.
One user said, “If you don’t run your own relay, is it even your note?”
That night, our hero did not sleep. He Googled “how to run a Nostr relay” and immediately regretted it.
There were guides. So many guides. Written by people who assumed you already knew everything.
He spun up a VPS. It crashed. He tried again. It worked, but nobody connected. He felt like he had opened a bar in the desert.
At 3:17 AM, he finally saw it: a single incoming connection.
Someone had posted “GM” to his relay.
He cried a little.
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