Backfilling a Local Relay - 3/11/2026
One experiment I'm considering is **backfilling my local relay**.
I currently have roughly:
• 700+ articles
• 500+ notes
If all of those events are republished to the local relay, the relay becomes a **complete local mirror** of my writing history.
This would create a few advantages:
• faster queries
• deterministic storage
• easier testing of relay behavior
• simpler debugging
The relay effectively becomes a **local indexing engine for Nostr events**.
The main thing to watch is limits such as `maxLimit = 500` in strfry configuration.
But since this limit only affects queries, not stored events, it should not prevent the relay from holding the entire archive.
Again, something to test later.