Because I want to promote the idea of relays as communities, where the relay operator acts like a community curator. The tone and content style of each relay reflects the taste of its operator. These relays are like different magazines. Of course, we’re still a long way from fully realizing this idea.

Here are the reasons I chose the current default relays:

wss://nostr.wine/ — a paid relay

wss://pyramid.fiatjaf.com/ — an invite-only relay

wss://relays.land/spatianostra/ — a relay where content inclusion is decided by votes from a specific group of people

wss://theforest.nostr1.com/ — a personally curated relay (not totally sure about the exact strategy)

wss://algo.utxo.one/ — an algorithmic relay

wss://140.f7z.io/ — a short-text relay (max 140 characters)

wss://news.utxo.one/ — a news bot relay

wss://yabu.me/ — a relay focused on Japanese content