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The best explanations of relay I found was an youtube video comparing it to a hose where water flows.

So you want to spread water around (your notes) and you do it by connecting your water source to many hoses.

When one ges broken or blocked the others keep sending water.

I don't remember the name of the video, but it was fantastic and it's the analogy I use with people and they all want to try nose after that.

If you know graphs you can days each user is a a node and and relay is an edge, and you have unlimited amount of edges between any nodes

waterball 1y ago

I think it would be much easier to the public if relays were renamed to "channels" or "waterways" or "hoses", or "powerlines" or anything that automatically remembers people that are they work in parallel and this blocking one has no effect on you

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waterball 1y ago

Or even "wire" or "cable"

fiatjaf 1y ago

If you find a good word starting with R I'm onboard.

waterball 1y ago

Railway, road, rail, river,.radiostation

I like river because if you think of water flow (water is your message), if one river is full or blocked the water will pass thru other river.

Notes and other stuff transmitted thru rivers.

Notes and other stuff transmitted thru Radiostations (or radio channels)

In this radio analogy,. someone chooses to voice his thighs over many radio channels (like 90Mhz,.102 MHz) and people can listen to all those stations.

If one station fails, the other still works