Syncing Events

When you start your Ditto server for the first time, it will be empty. If you add firehose relays you will start to see content eventually, but you can speed up the process by syncing events to Ditto's relay yourself.

Install nak

nak is an essential tool to managing a Nostr relay like Ditto. The easiest way to install it is to download a precompiled binary of the latest release.

Or use this one-liner:

curl -L -o /usr/local/bin/nak "$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/fiatjaf/nak/releases/latest | jq -r '.tag_name' | awk '{print "https://github.com/fiatjaf/nak/releases/download/" $0 "/nak-" $0 "-linux-amd64"}')" && chmod +x /usr/local/bin/nak

Downloading Profiles

The simplest way to download user profiles from the network is to use nak to sync data from purplepages:

nak req --paginate purplepag.es | nak event ws://localhost:4036/relay

TIP

Run this command within the Ditto host to avoid Ditto's rate-limiting.

Downloading Posts

A similar method can be used to pull in text notes:

nak req -k 1 --paginate relay.primal.net | nak event ws://localhost:4036/relay