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Relays management is a bitch 😂 One would think that more is better, right? That means you can reach more people. However, with more relays, that's more servers that your client needs to send and receive data from on every single event. It can create a lot of lag and use a lot of data.
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Sikto 2y ago

Is that the same when using a blastr relay?

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Derek Ross 2y ago

Blastr solves this issue!

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Sikto 2y ago

Thanks!

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thesimplekid 2y ago

Sort of you have to trust blastr to actually send your events and not censor. Though it's open source so if more people run blasters it's less of an issue.

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Derek Ross 2y ago

I've actually been thinking about running a blastr for myself as a way to make sure my events are broadcasted to every relay. I also think that we should have many blastr relays across the protocol. I only know of two right now? More could exist?

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thesimplekid 2y ago

The other issue with it is if I see your note on a relay you've blased to but are not reading from and comment on that relay you'll never see it. So clients will have to get smarter about figuring out what relays people are writing to and reading from. Gossip does some work around this