Choice is nice and all, but there's also no way to make an informed or correct choice of which relays to use. Forcing every user to choose relays is an antipattern imo. Forcing users to use a single set of relays is an antipattern.
The third option which doesn't exist is the right one and the one no dev will pursue: relays that actually relay notes to their destinations and pull notes that are destined for them.
Sats McJay
npub10m…x27hf
2026-04-04 17:01:41 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…nx72
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2026-04-04 17:01:41 UTCEvent JSON
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