{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":":H::e::n::k::y:!! wrote","author_name":":H::e::n::k::y:!! (npub160…x889v)","author_url":"https://nostr.now/npub1600yr4qg5vcfp7svf6ysj0008tn7aphnu0gjs6lw5hjn74n0laasjx889v","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://nostr.now","html":"Today I felt like doing a vibe coding experiment, can AI code a relay from the ground up?\nThe answer seems to be yes. But its not a random experiment, I had a specific idea in mind.\n\nAnyone remember Limewire? What if I told you that Limewire's Gnutella network still exists in 2026. You can still connect to it. It survived all the pressure to shut it down, every working peer knows other working peers and you only need to find one of them.\n\nProblem is, Limewire was super easy to spoof. Malware would just put up fake peers announcing anything as a valid file which was of course a copy of itself. You could have searched for the word Nostr back in 2025 and have found nostr.mp3.exe just fine.\n\nNostr already solved this problem with the way things are signed here. So if Limewire is so resillient , and Nostr solves the forging. Why not combine both platforms strengths?\n\nMeet today's experiment Nostella. It discovers and shares peers like Limewire, infact this thing will automatically connect to Nostr peers and fetch events from other peers including non nostella nodes and then caches them on its own node. You can deploy an empty nostella instance and use it as a relay immediately since it will have a ton of stuff populated very quickly.\n\nI also wanted this to be something that is crazy easy to setup so that even a novice user can just run their own private home relay that peers with the others.\n\nSo for anyone who just wants a quick relay, this thing is as simple as running it and your ready to be a leaf peer.\n\nIf you want to make a proper ultrapeer ready relay you do need to give this a public address (such as a subdomain) and its probably good to give it a proper SSL certificate. If you host that kind of public relay with this, chances are the network promotes you to be an ultrapeer and then you help the others onboard and you relay messages to more public nostr relays.\n\nThe whole thing figures out on its own which relays are good to post to and pull from I have very few bootstrap relays bundled, the rest it will find own its own.\n\nIf this works in practise has yet to be seen, but if this sounds like your kinda relay you can grab it from https://gitworkshop.dev/henk.tech/nostella/releases"}