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Don't choose random relays. That's not good. There are lots of relays tracking and selling people's data for profit. That's a terrible strategy.

Small relays work on amethyst and other outbox model clients, but many clients haven't updated yet, so the large relay helps with reach.

Most importantly, you want to use the relays your friends and follows use. That's doesn't need to be a large relay. It just do happens that today, users haven chosen to centralize in large relays.
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techfeudalist 1y ago

Do you know what percentage of users right now are connected to the top three relays?

My assumption is that it’s more than 90%.

If I’m right (>90%) then this gravity will be hard to fight. The large relays will become stronger through network effects.

I remember reading that the devs were going to try an inbox / outbox solution where the large relays would be used for addressing. Is that still the plan? I didn’t see any discussion on removing the dependency on the large relays.

Did I miss that? Is there a way to remove the client dependency on the large relays?

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Vitor Pamplona 1y ago

Yeah, outbox/inbox is the default now. But people need to choose their own relays. Otherwise no model will work.

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Vitor Pamplona 1y ago

More importantly, free relays will never be decentralizing.