Setting up a Nostr relay with nostr-rs-relay

If you are interested in learning about Nostr, definitely check out some of my writing on this open source, decentralised, censorship resistant social media alternative. If you would like to experiment with running your own relay to, I can recommend looking into nostr-rs-relay. When running your own nostr relay, you become an independant, censorship resistant part of the nostr network and allow you to backup your events.

I'm currently running nostr-rs locked down with whitelisted npub to only accept my own messages, to avoid having to moderate the content that gets pushed to my relay. Use the pubkey_whitelist array value in the authorization section of config.toml to define the whitelisted pubkeys. Please note that the values are in hex format, so convert your npub to hex using an online converter

[authorization]
# Pubkey addresses in this array are whitelisted for event publishing.
# Only valid events by these authors will be accepted, if the variable
# is set.
pubkey_whitelist = [
  "4fda8b10d2d955b1f85f1e65bbb624dfc46575d70982e86462fd18a77bbee962" #peter
]