Given the current set of incentives in the protocol, it seems like this is the only possible outcome. Anything that makes relays not interchangeable has to end up this way, right?
If relays were like Internet routing hardware where nobody even knew which relay they were connected to (who knows which brand of BGP router their traffic flows through?) then using some kind of refined version of the gossip protocol could (maybe?) be able to spread the load.
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npub1pj…e0h42
2023-02-27 20:26:58
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npub1pjvcwasj9ydasx9nmkf09pftsg640vm5fs7tzprssew8544yj2ds6e0h42Published at
2023-02-27 20:26:58Event JSON
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