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Maybe the wording could be better. Bob follows Alice. By doing that, when Bob reads from Relay 2, Bob will get Alice's posts. Otherwise, Bob does not read any content from Relay 2, because he assumes that the global feed (accounts he does not follow) is full of spam.
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MaxMoney21M⚡ 2y ago

“Follow” just means that you will ask a relay for this npub's posts directly, because you trust them to not be spam.

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Oscar 2y ago

Look at this：“What happens if I'm not connected to the same relays someone else is? You won't be able to communicate with that person. ”

i get that：in order to see each other's events, they must add at least one shared relay？🤔

Reference：https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr

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MaxMoney21M⚡ 2y ago

Yes you need at least one shared relay. In the example, Alice and Bob share Relay 2. I didn't draw the lines, but Chad could share Relay 2 as well, he still wouldn't be able to see Alice unless he follows her npub explicitly.

Bob and Chad have 2 shared relays, but Bob writes to R3 and reads Chad's posts from R4. Chad writes to R4 and reads Bob's posts from R3.