"If there is hope, it lies with the Nostriches."
- George Orwell, 2026, maybe
Johnathan Corgan
Johnathan Corgan
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🎶 Older now, but still running against the wind 🎶
Scientist, engineer, consultant, pilot. Slinger of bits and reducer of gradients.
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GM ☕ Do we have any Nostriches who have done the #Camino?
So far my relay crawling experiments show a steady state of about 800 nostr relays online and queryable at any point in time, while the collective unique relays extracted from recent NIP-65 kind 10002 inbox/outbox lists is nearly 3000. About half of the difference is down to DNS failures--relays that simply don't exist anymore.
Just coded up a recursive relay crawler using NIP-65 events for discovery. Over the course of a few hours it discovered a total of 2,761 unique URLs for relays (after discarding a variety of malformed or otherwise unusable relay tags.) Unfortunately, actually going out and attempting a connection with each, only *800* were online and queryable! Not sure what to make of this. Clearly many people need to update their kind 10002 relay lists...