Derek Ross on Nostr: I've only been around for 5 or 6 weeks but this is something that I've always ...

I've only been around for 5 or 6 weeks but this is something that I've always foreseen as happening. Clients are the super tool here. Relays are just dumb backends that the average user doesn't care about. They are extremely important, but the average person on the street does not care about that. Because of this, all major clients will run relays and they'll bootstrap their users into use them. We'll go down the centralization path a little bit, but users will have the choice to use other big and popular relays. I do hope that we don't go full down this path. It's still too early to tell. So, I guess the question remains: how do we make relays more important to users? How do we make relay selection important? Should it be part of every client's onboarding process? Do we advocate for that? If a priv/pub key signs in and doesn't have any relays attached to their profile, then display the relay onboarding process? This still leads to clients choosing a default relay list and most users will never go back and update those again because it's not something we've had to do in the last 20 years of social networking. It will take a long time to change that mentality.