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And that's a great way to go about it - but right now all we are creating is cancel culture towards big relays while advocating fair chance towards small relays. That's AA. What we could do is highlight what makes these small relay players special. There are hundreds of relays I presume ? How are people selecting them ? based on features like wine provides? based on time taken ? based on trust not to get blasted ? based on connectivity and strength ? based on recommendation? based on who runs it and confidence level ? based on you just feeling good supporting smaller relays? private ? communities? localisation? topics based? language based? All these are great reasons - and we should put it out there for users and let users decide. Problems often leads to solutions - and if there is money, one can do a lot more and lot faster. I just think we should not box ourselves in. (PS : huge respect for all of you and the work you are doing - this is not personal, just a discussion on the topic)
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Yes to all of that, for sure. nostr.watch does some of this, I have a few features in Coracle intended to help people sort that out (in fact adding more metadata to relay cards as we speak). Unfortunately, it's hard to have much of a value proposition as a relay right now, because there are so many, so few of them support AUTH, and blastr results in most relays storing the same undifferentiated/random collection of content. Lots of good action items, but differentiation is currently harder than it needs to be.