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If I understand correctly, the events contain text and are stored and sent by relays, and so are less censorable because those events are available via many relays. The non-text media forms are sent as links in the events or links in the text and clients load them from their respective URLs. I cannot find a citation but I think this was a deliberate design decision because much problematic content is in images and videos, so by not directly relaying images and videos it lowers the risk (as well as resource requirements) for those who run relays. A lower burden to run a relay means more relays, more relays means a lower chance of censorship.

Can anyone point us to the link for the why? Maybe I'll find it later.
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Unplausible 11mo ago

...it explains amongs other things that followers can miss user's note if they simply aren't connected to the right relay. Which is quite a big flaw in the system. Maybe it could be reworked, by making the relays communicating with each other and to complete what they need. Or something like that...

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772f9545... 11mo ago

The gossip client I use seems to proactively seek out folks' relays as it goes, so I am connected to sixty plus relays at a time even though I only configured less than half that. It works well enough most of the time.