There’s something I honestly don’t get about #nostr. Whatever relays I’m connected to are going to publish this post, but do they propagate information to other relays and unify it?
I see so much being said about relays this is something I should understand as a simple user…
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Hey nostr:npub1r0rs5q2gk0e3dk3nlc7gnu378ec6cnlenqp8a3cjhyzu6f8k5sgs4sq9ac you are always super helpful and enlightening, a silly question for you 😀
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Relays don’t propagate posts to other relays. Nostr’s design is that relays receive and send information to the users connected to that relay. However there are some relays that have been designed to blast notes out to multiple other relays, and some people have also created aggregators that gather info from multiple relays. But automatic propagation of data from relay to relay is not part of the network protocol. 
same question when I first used nostr🤓
Initially I thought that’s how it should work, similar to how bitcoin nodes propagate blocks to other nodes. But with Nostr there is no need for every relay to have a copy of every single event on Nostr all the time, and doing so would make it harder to run a relay.
Thank you! This helps a lot
