My main takeaway is that it is using it's own database of events(currently indexed: 812.09M events ยท Nov 6, 2020 โ€“ Jan 13, 2026), and continually gathering from other relays, which it obtains from users kind 10002 events.

I also noticed the mutiny wallet relay is in the top 50. I swear it's been two years since that closed shop. Could be unaware users, and likely some of the group who have left. No need to update your relays if you're not using Nostr anymore.

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lol... relays I haven't been running for like 2yrs are somehow in the top 10... wtf....

and only 13 of the top 50 saved relays are online ๐Ÿ˜ฌ

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I see a lot more as online, ~30

So - what's happening here is that it gets the full list of all pubkeys that we've seen, then fetches the most recently published 10002 event for each, then get's all the relay URLs from that (normalizing the URLs and throwing away complete trash along the way) and then counts.

Yes, there are a lot of pubkeys that have very old relays on their lists. There are also obviously some bot forms in there as well I'm guessing.