Introduce fly-castle, a gui relay for flycat
tonight I just release the very first rough version of fly-castle, it is a very simple desktop app to provide a GUI for your own private backup relay written in Rust. the core relay implementation is forked from scsibug/nostr-rs-relay, I might touch the code there to experiment some ideas later.
Currently, I only build for macOS since that's the only OS on my laptop, but maybe I will find a windows computer to build windows one.
Here is how I would love to use it:
macOS
- download the software from here
- unzip it, you will get a file named
fly-castle
- create a folder named
my-relay
and putfly-castle
into the folder - Start the relay by running the following command on your terminal:
cd my-relay
sudo chmod 755 fly-castle
./fly-castle
Open flycat website, click the private backup menu on the left side of the page. add the ws://localhost:8080 to your relay via the right side of the new page.
if you want to stop running your little relay, just close the window of fly-castle, it is that simple.