This is why I built flotilla the way I did — encouraging "relays as groups" rather than "relay-based groups" means a thinner distribution of groups across hosts. In other words, admins are encouraged to self-host, which converts deplatforming (a bug) into banning (a feature). I strongly disagree with the approach most NIP 29 groups take of many groups, one relay.
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A more complete explanation of my position: https://habla.news/u/hodlbod@coracle.social/1732313518416
Not to say that I disagree. A federation event on the relay level seems like a better way to do it than directly within NIP 29 though, since it can be used for a million other use cases related to relays.
That works except for the fact that most people won't run servers. And even the ones that do can still lose their servers, lose their domain names etc.