Social
Social is the relay's chronological publishing space. It brings short notes and long-form articles into one feed, with replies and reaction counts folded into each post. Every item remains a normal Nostr event that other clients can read.
Notes and articles
A note is a regular kind 1 text note. It is suited to short updates and microblogging. An article is a replaceable kind 30023 event with a d tag, a title tag and Markdown content. Articles can also carry summary and image tags for previews. The relay shows notes and articles newest first, and offers separate Notes and Articles views when you want to narrow the feed.
The web page supports writing either form, previewing article Markdown, and adding media. The relay keeps the signed event unchanged, so a Nostr client can publish to or read from the same feed. See NIP-01, NIP-23 and NIP-19.
Conversations
Replies to notes use kind 1 with the usual NIP-10 thread references. Replies to articles use kind 1111 comments with NIP-22: A, K and P identify the article address, while lowercase tags identify the immediate parent. Older kind 1 article replies remain readable when they carry an article a tag.
Open a post to see its conversation. Replies are folded into the post's count in the feed, while the thread view lists comments in order and shows reaction totals with the same author and profile information.
Reactions
Reactions are kind 7 events following NIP-25. The feed aggregates each reaction by content and counts one reaction per author and content for a post. Custom emoji from NIP-30 use their image metadata and remain distinct when the same shortcode names different images. The signed-in person's reaction is marked separately, so the page can show which reactions they have already made.
Media and Markdown
Attach images, video or audio from the composer, or paste a media URL. Uploaded media is stored through the relay's public Blossom file service and referenced in the event with NIP-92 imeta tags. Alt text is included with the attachment metadata. Images, video and audio are shown inline when the browser can play them; unsupported media is offered as a direct link.
Articles use Markdown with the relay's safe text renderer. Notes and comments remain plaintext, with line breaks and safe links preserved. Supported media references become native browser elements; unsafe HTML and unsupported link targets remain text.
Routes and feeds
Use / for the mixed feed and / for a post and its conversation. An addressable article can also be opened with /. / redirects to Social, while / and / remain available for existing article readers. The mixed feed is available as / and /.
The browser keeps unfinished composer text as a local draft for the signed-in account and relay. Drafts stay in that browser until published or cleared. Preview requests may send the current text to the relay for rendering, but a draft is not published until you submit it.
Relay template
The Social tenant template enables member publishing for notes, comments, reactions and articles while keeping reads public. It also allows profiles and deletion events needed by common Nostr clients. Choose it when the relay should provide a shared publishing feed rather than an article-only site.
Add the relay directly to any Nostr client that supports NIP-01 subscriptions and the event kinds above. The same events can therefore be viewed in the relay, Jumble, Primal and other Nostr clients.