Is this true though? I've not noticed increased data usage, and though there are far more relays, most of them transmit little data. Here are the top 25 data using relays, after a day of use. After this it quickly tails off into single MB and kB.
In my experience uncompressed media is a far greater issue for bandwidth issue, with 2MB avatars and 400MB 3 minute videos 😂 When I made Flappy Nostrich the biggest issue was downscaling avatars to non ridiculous sizes.
I am more worried about multitude of sockets to random IPs, and their implications on security. Selective fetching and on demand connection to specific relays is probably fine, but that still can be insecure and may result in some exploit or user activity tracking. As I posted a few days ago or longer, even TOR crumbles under many connections to multiple sources. I don’t have the solution, but I think proceeding with caution is warranted.
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An interesting article. I wonder if anything in Tor has improved these issues in the 15 years since it was written? A lot was about bitorrent itself having issues, but the third point could be of concern, if it still is an issue.
I think the issues was architectural, and that may have improved, but I also think that “the state” could inject enough nodes into network to uncover the origin.
I think for a lot of people using a proxy relay could be a good choice. I'm actually connecting to less relays on average than I was before when I set it up that way.
Is it a default though? The defaults will be used in majority of cases
No you gotta set it up, default is outbox mode. I'm not sure what relays would be a good choice for that and are free. I use my own WoT relay & Nostr.land, but I think aggr.nostr.land needs subscription, and a wot relay is less useful if it's not configured for your own npub.
