Some personal summary about “relays” ，for new users of Nostr:
#1-What is a relay? You know “Nostr” stands for “Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays”，so a relay is just like a server the web2 company such as Google using to save and transmit our data.The difference is with Nostr you can choose which relay to use or not to use, and anyone can run a relay, while you can just rely on the official server with Google.
#2-It’s not that the more relays you add, the better. It depends. More relays would cost more of your data and power of the cell phone, simply to understand. However, if you aim to be an influencer and try to podcast your posts to a lot of people, you can add as many relays as you can until you get a bad use experience.
#3-The option to relays makes Nostr a censorship-resistant global "social" network. On the other hand, a relay also has the option to transmit your message or not. They can have their custom rules. This makes it doable to filter out spam and porn via a relay with special censorship criteria. Don’t worry. If you prefer porn, you can go hunt for private relays that offer porn instead of being blasted with it in day to day relays.Therefore various paid relays may be a big business in the future.
#4-Right now, when one of your following posts to relays you don't subscribe to, then their content is effectively nonexistent. You need to check the relays of your following regularly and add one of them to yours, so that you can view the content . However, you can still follow someone even if you don’t share a relay. I don’t know much about this issue, someone guessed it is since you share some friends or social chain, making sense.
#5-Think twice before you delete a relay, or you may lose some following or followers.
All above I learned here, thanks to content creators like @Cleus and @xinxingduan. There may be mistakes in my summary, and corrections are welcome.
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