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# Personal Relay
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A personal relay is a relay that serves as an OUTBOX and an INBOX for a small set of
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users, perhaps just yourself.
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It hosts your own events and makes them available to the public.
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It accepts events that tag your users, but doesn't allow the public to read them back. Only
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your users (after being authenticated) can see them.
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One nice thing about a personal relay is that you are in control, and you have a record
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of your events in your possession.
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Another nice thing is that you don't have to moderate content, since the only content
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that is served to the public is content that your trusted users created.
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## The Dark Side
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There is a dark side to running a personal relay. If lots of people do this, nostr will
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become more difficult for clients, especially clients running on mobile phones. Because
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they will need to setup SSL connections to far too many relays.
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It may be better for others if people were to use a smaller number of larger relay services.
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But who am I to say? You are the sovereign. Here is your personal relay.
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