Still scratching my head around the fact that people will see what you share only if they have at least 1 relay of yours and what are the implications for having good discovery and consistent conversations. I made some tests with new users only connected to non overlapped relays and indeed I can't see anything from them, nor send any DM etc .... (thread)
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So then if you are only connected to few relays, there is also an important other factor that for some reason, not always the different relays "see" your post.. which makes "pushing" your posts to those relays that didn't see it more relevant...
For instance, this first post was only seen by 4 our 8 relays.. which increases the chance of this post not being seen by others.
Figuring out the right combination of relays based on the people I want to follow is tough because either we end up converging to only few relays or we'll need to have tons of them to have good coverage of edge cases
So as I said in another note, maybe there will be either some services that are mirroring from other other relays.. or .. there maybe some relays that don't store data but pass most of the global feed so you can at least get the feed and store it locally?
