Not sure what specifically you’re asking.
The reason why it would be nice to use other relays is that you wouldn’t rely on SimpleX servers to be up, they could shut down as a project and we could still have failover/redundancy.
From a privacy perspective, SimpleX is far superior to Nostr DMs due to its architecture. A relay runner can’t even tell how many users are using it, since there aren’t usernames.
https://simplex.chat/#privacy-of-identity-contacts-metadata
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2023-05-26 00:50:35
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