Let's see if this equally applies to relays. You are able to choose which relay to connect to. - True You are able to run your own relay. - True You can even write your own relay software. - True If there is a bug, you can switch to another relay until it is fixed. - True Depending on your circumstance, you can choose between convenient relays or secure ones. - True "Relays are shared by everyone." - Not true Relays are shared by those who choose to connect to a given relay. Someone may choose to run their own personal relay that only they can post to in order to back up their own notes. Or, they may run a relay to back up their notes and all the notes they care about from others (anyone they follow) that they also allow others to read from, but not write to. Or they may run a relay that is only for a small group of people to read and write to, such as their church. Or they may have the hardware and bandwidth that can handle running a large public relay that anyone can post to or read from, but even then that does not mean everyone will use it. Relays are just as diverse as clients, if not more so, and users have a lot of choice about what relays they will connect to, or even run their own. So again, I see no real reason why users should trust clients more than relays.