Also we can’t scale with just “throw more hobbyist infra at it”. No incentive to provide a reliable service and too short lived Instead of 10k self hosted open relays you could have 50 properly managed relays, still have censorship resistance and would be more reliable.

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It's *so* cheap to host hobby infra, mirroring from other relays is is just as cheap, but most relays don't do it easily or at all. Redundancy comes from mirroring, not from centralization.