I was just thinking the other day that the relays hosted by nostr clients should transition to either paid or to be used primarily as bootstrap directory relays like https://purplepag.es/what
This would prevent client hosted relays from becoming too centralized and too overloaded, in my opinion.
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niche relays ftw!
To add onto this, I think that this two prong approach can really streamline the relay experience:
1. NIP-65/Gossip for intelligently finding what relays your follows posts are
2. For those who also want to automate what relays their posts are sent to (ie: very casual users), clients could use an API like https://api.nostr.watch to select a handful of relays that optimizes for high uptime and non overloaded relays
