It is arbitrary, but only because it doesn't matter much. The only reason that we run our own relays for White Noise is because I monitored a bunch of the most popular relays for a few months and their uptime was dog shit.
The White Noise relays are still just relays, running normal relay software, in accordance with the spec. The only event size limit in nostr is NIP-44 payloads, which have a 4GB limit. It makes no sense to artificially limit events to a tiny size. This isn't bitcoin. We don't have to worry about nodes running on raspberry pi's running out of space.
jeffg / JeffG
npub1zu…6c2uc
2026-09-29 16:18:55 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…4p5e
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npub1zuuajd7u3sx8xu92yav9jwxpr839cs0kc3q6t56vd5u9q033xmhsk6c2ucPublished at
2026-09-29 16:18:55 UTCEvent JSON
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