I was thinking about a similar problem today and my possible answer might overlap:
It'd be great if users could "subscribe" to relay lists someone else provides without having to actively maintain their own relay list. Those lists could probably be made qualitatively much better / updated than each user themselves, including read / write asymmetry you talk about.
I thought about this in the context of authoritarian regimes: Opposition figures could maintain and constantly update a list of their relays. This could even be automated. The list would be distributed and the adversarial government would essentially have to simultaneously shutdown all relays at once. The client would just need to find one copy of the list to then (very probably) find more relays / more recent versions of the list.
Technically afaik it'd be very akin to NIP-65 relay lists in that only a certain user or users could maintain the list. It'd be different in that they would prefereably not have to be the creator, but could be added / removed as maintainers.
Just initial thoughts.
marc
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2023-07-12 21:30:20
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