Yes, you should have your own private personal relay. It will keep a permanent copy of your stuff, plus all your private stuff like drafts and DM's.
For mobile phones, I personally use and recommend Citrine.
https://github.com/greenart7c3/Citrine
For desktop or laptop, Nostr Tray Relay is excellent. You can set your desktop clients like noStrudel to use in in the cache settings screen.
https://github.com/CodyTseng/nostr-relay-tray
Use these in addition to the public relays.
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2026-02-06 21:54:17 UTC
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