They write directly to relays, but they read the notes over a caching server. Which is like a relay, but I think not really because it enriches the notes, rather than just storing them for a while and passing them on when you request.
I don't understand why they don't just use an aggregating relay, like theforest.
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I'm glad I took time to understand relays better, because that doesn't make sense to me either. I wish I could give more input on that🤷. What do you mean by enrich the notes?
The answer is very simple, it costs money to make stuff. With a limited amount of workers you can only make a limited amount of things.
You can’t just wish something in existence, it’s infantile to think in terms of “why don’t they just”. We are open source so why don’t you just write that feature and open a pull request, nostr is permission-less after all.
