Because:
1. centralizing is bad. The main relay set can moderate everything.
2. the fixed set of relays will know the location of each one of your users.
3. You want people to choose relays that are physically closer to them for performance.
4. If I follow people on Nostr and they are using bitchat, I don't want to have to move to their location to talk to them, I just send to their relays.
5. Relays can become topical communities within locations.
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I don't get it. How does this apply to bitchat? The channels are literally location-based. Users have no persistent identities, you can't follow them.
The problem were trying to solve isn't following users or finding the relays rhey post on. We're doing location-based channels. What you list applies to Twitter like feeds but I don't see how it applies to bitchat.
Then just do it because a decentralized list is better than a fixed one. Otherwise, you don't even need nostr for fixed servers.
