I want my clients to connect to one relay that acts as a client to the other relays
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Yes I also think this is the way
The next evolution of nostr, client that run on servers.
I'm working on doing that programmically, from Sybil, with a Linux broadcasting bot that runs with my npub.
I don't know if it needs to be within a relay, but it's a nice sort of plug-in or utility.
Like, if I write something directly to my laptop relay (ws://localhost), I want it to broadcast to TheForest and TheCitadel, but nowhere else.
If I write something to sovbit.host, I want it to broadcast to a whole list of relays and auto-repost 6 hours later (cuz of time zones).
And I want to regularly pull everything from my follow list from that long relays list (excluding AUTH relays, to protect people's privacy) and broadcast it (and any embedded notes) to my localhost relay, theforest, and thecitadel.
Then I could just write to the one or the other, like having public or private channels in a logger.
Yes. This makes sense to me.
I absolutely would love to set something like this up, preferably running on my own hardware, but I have always tended to be more of a power-user for everything I get into, including Nostr.
I don't expect most users are going to have any desire or aptitude to set up their own relay that can do this for them, not unless it is dead simple to spin up and walks them through it like a 5th grader.