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My cousin asked what relays were. How would you explain relays in simple terms?

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Dumb servers that you can leave behind at any time.

They don't have to be dumb

Servers that enable communications.

Instead of one big Facebook server.

With Nostr you have multiple servers where users can easily switch between. Also, individuals can run their own servers.

It's a database that will house your notes and messages.

Ive got a private one setup so just adding them into my relay stack will then backup everything I post by default ?

Dumb servers that repeat/redirect blobs of data from/to clients. In this case with storage, so essentially delayed repeats/redirects.

it's like those semaphore things where people used to communicate messages over distances with lights on top of towers. Relays are those towers.

Here you are 🐺

Or here

Things that work sometimes and don't work other times.

Like a Twitter server but it's connected to Facebook servers too and they speak the same language.

Relays are like the racer in a relay race passing on the Batton. Instead of one racer, there are many that get the Batton /message.