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Jumble is mainly designed for browsing content directly from a specific relay. Nowadays, there are special types of relays like community relays, curated relays, or language-based relays. When you browse these, it’s independent of who you follow — the data only comes from that single relay, which makes it much faster.

The following feed, on the other hand, fetches notes from the write relays set by all the users you follow. That means it needs to pull data from dozens or even hundreds of relays and then aggregate them, so it’s naturally much slower.
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Lucas M 3mo ago

Thank you for clearing that up. So we need to do a better job at designating the different types of relays. Do community, curated, and language-based relays have a secure method of distinguishing read and write relays?

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Cody 3mo ago

Honestly, there isn’t a reliable way to distinguish them right now, since the boundaries are quite blurry. Users still need to understand what each relay they use is for, which isn’t very user-friendly. The good news is that most relays today are unrestricted public ones.