Ofcourse I forgot to attach 🤦‍♂️ 
The latest (not yet published) episode of Nostrovia is talking about exactly this.
When released to the wild, sir ?
Technically the protocol relies on websockets, but it would be very easy to come up with another transport mechanism, including p2p, tor relays, jsonl exports/imports, and more. The client-controlled replication is what is key, and might be harder to pull off if you stepped away from the more conventional relay architecture, but not really difgicult. You would probably need adapters to abstract away multiple implementations of a general purpose relay interface.
Do you have any concerns about the true censorship resistant nature of the network over time with the centralizing forces that exist specific to relays?
Is it likely we see a few dominant relays forced to operate in a “compliant” fashion ?
History is not yet written, nostr could go off the rails in all kinds of different directions. I think it's very important we continue to de-commodify relays, and create mechanisms for clients and users to discover the correct relay for the use case, whether it's data locality or additional functionality.
See my blog post for more formed thoughts:
Appreciated, sir 🫡
