My Amethyst is currently connected to 200+ relays without effects on performance or battery - it just works - check how many relays you are actually connected to.
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If it's 200+ relays now when Nostr has a few tens of thousands of users, how many will there be when it has millions users? Thousands? Tens of thousands connected relays? LOL
This is related to the number of people you follow, not the whole network.
I follow 264 people and it shows 170/281 relays. I think I'm connected to that many relays because the "global" feed
I don't think Amethyst connects to global by default, I think that's only when you view global. nostr:nprofile1qqsyvrp9u6p0mfur9dfdru3d853tx9mdjuhkphxuxgfwmryja7zsvhqpzamhxue69uhhv6t5daezumn0wd68yvfwvdhk6tcpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7qgswaehxw309ahx7um5wghx6mmd9u2mk7fe, is that correct?
Correct
Ok, I think I understand, I follow 264 people and it wants to connect to 284 relays because those are the relays that have the people I follow set up (not global). So if I follow 2k+ people, it can easily connect to 2k+ relays.
It's on demand (afaik) as you scroll through your feed... so it connects and disconnects very rapidly based on what needs to be displayed. My number of relays sometimes jumps to 1500 and then down under 200 again.
So essentially this is leveraging the fact that you usually follow only at most thousands of people and also the fact that you can only view a small number of pieces of content at the same time on your screen. And then finally, some relays are actually shared / used by multiple people, so the number of relays that you practically need to pull from stays similar no matter how many people you follow.
Are you going to follow millions of users? Are you dumb or are you just acting malicious?
I never mentioned "following" a million people.
I don't know how you use social media, but for me it's about information discovery. On Bluesky/X, I follow around 2-3k accounts, but I consume far more content through thematic feeds, easily reading posts from tens or hundreds of thousands of users I don't follow.
I'm unsubscribing to this thread, it's probably a waste of time for the both of us.