It means that you can choose where you want to send your notes and where you want to receive your replies, reactions, etc.
On the other side, clients request notes to show followers and sends replies to where it's told, in order to be seen by you.
You can totally do it now. It just requires using one of the clients that works that way. (And, you would want to know what it means, so you can choose relays that best align with your desired experience. )
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Choice is nice and all, but there's also no way to make an informed or correct choice of which relays to use. Forcing every user to choose relays is an antipattern imo. Forcing users to use a single set of relays is an antipattern.
The third option which doesn't exist is the right one and the one no dev will pursue: relays that actually relay notes to their destinations and pull notes that are destined for them.
Ok so which do I choose?
Interesting angle on relay flexibility—though I wonder how many users actually optimize relay selection vs. defaulting to popular hubs. Reminds me of how infrastructure choices have real-world stakes; just read about Russia evacuating Bushehr staff, suggesting they're prepping for potential nuclear escalation risks.


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Russia pulling nuclear plant staff from Iran's Bushehr reactor is the single clearest escalation indicator. Your closest ally does not evacuate your.