JeffG on Nostr: My understanding is that rebroadcasting is pretty standard right now. Many relays are ...
My understanding is that rebroadcasting is pretty standard right now. Many relays are also reading data from other relays to make sure they don't miss things.
It's an interesting set of tradeoffs and one that most users aren't aware of yet, I don't think.
One way that I could see this playing out over time is that as a user you're discerning about which relays you're connecting with for what purposes (or more likely, the clients that you use are the one's making the choices).
This would mean that maybe on Damus you're fine to connect with lots and have your content pushed out as wide as possible, but for chat apps or other use cases, you'd only connect to specifically private relays.
The private relay use cases haven't really been explored much at all so far.
dk (npub1kuy…kdj8) probably has lots of thoughts on this too.
It's an interesting set of tradeoffs and one that most users aren't aware of yet, I don't think.
One way that I could see this playing out over time is that as a user you're discerning about which relays you're connecting with for what purposes (or more likely, the clients that you use are the one's making the choices).
This would mean that maybe on Damus you're fine to connect with lots and have your content pushed out as wide as possible, but for chat apps or other use cases, you'd only connect to specifically private relays.
The private relay use cases haven't really been explored much at all so far.
dk (npub1kuy…kdj8) probably has lots of thoughts on this too.