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I appreciate you sharing this info.

How can the protocol expect all users to be using the same relays as all other users? Seems like this is an impractical solution, and I can't believe that's how the protocol actually works.

There's no way for one of my followers' relays to contact one of my relays and download the image? Relays can't talk to each other and help connect people and content?

And everything I've been posting for the past 3 months has not been seen by all my followers?

None of this makes practical sense. (But you don't have to explain it)
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YEGHRO 2y ago

I probably couldn't explain it all if I wanted to, and if I could I'd build some cool stuff with such knowledge.

That being said the relays do share into with other relays if I'm not mistaken, but the maintainers also filter and limit some of this to limit spam, I'm sure.

For example our relays are setup with one private and one public relay and our private relay sends all its events to our public relay from there the public relay takes all that data and shoots it to other relays to help spread the content across Nostr. to help make the content more easily seen.

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YEGHRO 2y ago

"That being said the relays do share into with other relays if I'm not mistaken," ... like to add that this doesn't guarantee that your posts will be shared across the network, it makes it more likely but the best way is to post to multiple relays to ensure it propagates.