Alex Gleason on Nostr: I've gone back and forth on whether relays should be infrastructure or communities, ...
I've gone back and forth on whether relays should be infrastructure or communities, and by now I'm firmly in the "infrastructure" camp. They should be a boring implementation detail that users should never have to think about unless something is wrong - like DNS.
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2026-02-23 01:50:22 CETEvent JSON
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