It depends on how many people you follow / or each of your follow lists have. 100-relay connection is perfectly fine. Anything over 1000 people is hard. But I think over 1000 follows is mismanaging your follows.
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Over 1000 is common now.. Wen add-to-list direct from amethyst? 🥳💎🚀
Coming. nostr:npub1a3tx8wcrt789skl6gg7rqwj4wey0j53eesr4z6asd4h4jwrd62jq0wkq4k seems to be working on it
💎💎💎 most under-rated feature in >1 year of The thyst 🔥
I've probably said this before, but this seems like a good place to use (a network of) caching proxies for reads. I wonder whether software like Squid could be adapted to our purposes?
There's also the old NNTP model, but all that storage space and indexing was really a bitch back in the day!