I think I'd like your friend.

For me it's not about a sweet spot between UX and censorship resistance. Tying relays to censorship resistance exclusively was a bad idea from the start. There's so much more to relays.

Also without maximal user awareness of relays then I can't see what the point of Nostr's underlying stack is. Websockets for what?

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There's a more to relays, sure, what does that have to do?

Because coming at relays a different way means relays can be the first thing in every user onboarding flow. Like the very first. Which they should be. But super digestible.

And if they are the first thing then this whole sweet-spot spectrum doesn't really exist anymore.

Basically if we have to find out where relays sit on some kind of sweet-spot UX spectrum then we've already lost. The entire concept of Nostr rests not only on relays in a technical sense but on users being aware of them too. Like that is the most fundamental thing, by a long, long shot. It's almost the entire justification.