Nostr relays are the essential messengers of the Nostr social media ecosystem, ensuring that your messages are distributed far and wide, reaching a global audience without the constraints of centralized control.

Nostr relays serve as backend servers, storing and distributing messages among clients, impacting client speed. The shift to paid relays aims for better quality by deterring spam. Connecting to multiple relays provides backup for posts. Running your relay ensures uncensorable access and perpetual storage of notes and interactions.

A relay allows users to post messages and for other users (including themselves) to subscribe to them.

The relays are #nostr messenger pigeons

Transmits notes. Simple as that!

Think about relays like a server or as i like to say its the nostr highways.. you could be on highway 23(relay) while the party and cool notes are on highway 21(relay) so if you dont have highway 21 you missing out on notes..

Relays act like the bag of notes.

Twitter has one bag of notes tgat they control who sees what you see.. one centralized server

Nostr has a bunch of servers(relays)

This is the ghetto explanation 😂

Relay es la conexión entre 💜 [explicación poética]

Relay es Comunicación distribuida [explicación técnica]

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It is a place where you store notes and other stuff.

A relay is a service that stores "events", which are nothing but text messages that contain data an metadata (metadata is data that programs use, not intended to be read by people), and then when they're asked about those messages they return them to the requester.

You could see them as an "app", like the one you're using now, only much more simple.