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I wouldn't add any more than a dozen or so. After that you could experience problems on certain clients. I had 47 back in January. It was a bad time. I then tried mid 30s that was not better. Neither were 20s. I am mid-teens now and am mostly fine, but Snort is very slow. If I had 8-12 it would be best.
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PAUL HODL 🍿 2y ago

Hi Derek, thanks for sharing!

I don't understand, why is more relays worse?

My first attempt to improve my experience was to add more relays. I feel others will do the same by default.

How did you identify less was better? Trial and error? Cheers

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Derek Ross 2y ago

it's definitely not like pokemon. you do not want to catch them all. why? because for every relay, that's a web socket connection that your client must read and write from for every single action you take across nostr. contacting them all over and over again uses TONS of data, but not only that, it slows down your entire experience having to read and write to and from so many web sockets. if one of those relays is slow or has issues, the entire experience is degraded.

i used 10GB of data in the first 6 days of january on my phone 😆

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Eternal Student 2y ago

Put briefly, focus on quality over quantity, pulling the same data from 100 relays is more intensive than from a smaller group of good relays