Cool part of having relays as part of the protocol design is that all of these are an option without adding complexity.
One of the largest centralizing forces on the web has been DDoS mitigation services like CloudFlare, which often goes undiscussed or unnoticed. Same for email.
Lightning, Ecash, Bitcoin, PoW, WoT all help mitigate DDoS and spam without centralizing. It's huge.
Good point!
Well, hopefully at some point, certain relays will only be used for certain things and you will only need to access a small amount of them to get the job down.
As it stands, it’s a relay free for all and if you don’t have similar relays to people you follow, you won’t see their posts. And on the other side of that spectrum, some people have way too many relays and it just makes your experience worse rather than better.
But yeah, we’re getting there.
