Silberengel on Nostr: But they don't have to be. And there's the point that the big ones make good hubs for ...

But they don't have to be. And there's the point that the big ones make good hubs for a hub-and-spoke network, but there's no need to read/write directly to them.

Both of these models, in other words, don't work very well, but relays allow us to have a combination of the two. Like a logistics network, but with data.