It's sad that any search in Nostr is absolutely broken too so I can't find anything related (and unrelated) to what we are talking about here

Maybe I will if it still happening. But I need to install everything back just to prove you what I saw with my own eyes in real time. Not right now, sorry. BTW I saw people mentioned this primal's 'feature' not once

I compared Primal to Amethyst, and here's what bothered me about Primal: it filters certain content - replays, even specific users based on criteria only they seem to understand. It reloads media content with its own CDN, funnels all traffic through its cache relay, and keeps showing premium upgrade notification badge. Maybe you right and that's what I need to reduce connections count. But if my connection to Primal servers is bad it won't help...

I think I gave up on Nostr. It need too much connections to too much servers to work normal, not good (I think good is impossible). Now #Wisp trying to send me in 2023. Fuck it.

What do you mean? How long waves should be and what protocol/technology supports it?

With Tor you can use anything that works trough Tor. But 1. Tor is slow and sometimes can't connect. 2. I can't teach everyone how to use Tor (bridges, SNI, troubleshooting). 3. So why do I need SimpleX working only on Tor?! I can chat with you if you want, haha.

I think connections is the main problem. The second problem is clients never notice when you have poor connection, and event will just fking disappear after you push send button. Because clients can't predict what relays will do and if connection will be still bad or good enough to push event to relay at the exact moment when you try to publish something.

She's too old for this shit)))

idk. you can use logging software to find out if there's any connection or not.

DPI doesn't care from what IP to what IP the traffic is going. It uses LLMs and other soft to find the signatures of blocked protocols or kinds of obfuscation and drop it immediately, no matter it legal or illegal, it doesn't care. That's why when our people buying VPS's, installing VPN/proxy tunnel there, they're trying not to use it with banks, governments and other surveillance apps. Because from the moment vps's ip known, earlier or later connection to it became "depressed" automatically. DPI doesn't care why you use this tunnel. That's why when white list regime is working, even whitelisted hosts could be unavailable - DPI still doesn't care, and nobody could stop it. In couple of years or even less nobody would buy a server for VPN - that's their goal. To make it useless waste of time and money.

Delta chat's chatmail public servers are mostly blocked. When trying to use email services like Yandex mail or Rambler you'll immediately get permanent ban for suspicious activity or spam (they know about PGP and Delta chat of course). The most popular Mail_ru gives you an external app password only if you pay for subscription, you can't use delta chat unless you paid them and even if you pay them you likely will be banned for "spam". So you can't just tell people to install delta chat and be connected - relay by default blocked, local email services doesn't want to see your encrypted messages... Nostr-based messaging is much worse than anything you can use in such conditions. The number of DM relays are less then fingers on one hand. Dms here are superbad, it is unusable from my view. I changed client (now I'm using Wisp) and my old dms are missed, and those somehow appeared doesn't looks good. Nostr uses too many connections, it depends on availability of relays and good internet channel. I often struggle to send some basic event to three of the most popular public relays. I don't think Nostr can be the solution somehow. It failed in many ways. I tried White noise by the way, 0xchat too, idk it always lags and you have to admit compromises or surrender on it.

Yes, obfs4 or webtunnel bridges with fake SNI works when Cheburnet is off. When it's on, it's hard to connect to anything even "white listed" domains itself.

In my region (of Russia) Telegram is sometimes work without VPN, sometimes not, depending on ISP and mobile/WiFi connection. Govt controlled media yesterday signalled about Roscomnadzor is struggling to block Telegram with somehow limited resources, and it seems likely, for now at least. Maybe they just want more money for DPI infrastructure and playing, idk. I gave up on SimpleX when their support told me they doesn't have plans to implement any circumvention tools (similar to Signal's solution or others). And many many people in Russia did the same when it stop working without VPN. I hope SimpleX's position "other services must provide connection, not us do anything" will change. The difference between SimpleX's non-commercial basis and all vpns, that are paid (directly, or ads/data selling), is completely understandable... By the way in my case mentioned Session, that is still installed on my device, is not working with or without VPN, idk why. Session lasts longer than SimpleX, much longer, but since the end of 2025 I never had session online.

Oh they're starting to listen their users. 40 years it was unnecessary.

SimpleX doesn't work in Russia. Session is blocked too. Seems like it was much easier to block than Telegram (they're trying right now and it still works). SimpleX depends only on it's own infrastructure + Flux servers and it doesn't survive in restricted conditions.

My mobile operator, noticing that I switched to a no-fee plan (to keep my number), offered me 100 minutes of calls, 20 SMS messages, and 1 gigabyte of data for 12 cents a month. Additionally, I can connect extra free services: another 10 gigabytes of data with no conditions and 5 gigabytes of data with unlimited messengers, taxi apps, and banking services for five days in case my account runs out of money. Plus, there's unlimited data for the Russian "equivalents" of YouTube - Rutube and VKVideo.

Cleaned "Bad" relays in Wisp's settings and connection was restored. That's a thing to do if your general relays are in that list for some reason (failed connection, maintenance etc.)

Can't send notes with Tor connection