"Christine what do you think of people running Bluesky relays now"
It's good. It's not decentralized, it's still a star topology (there's still one "main" relay everything consumes from (EDIT: I'm wrong, see followup)) and most of these are cheap by being shallow. But it's def good for people to do it
EDIT: The thing that is good is that people are running the infrastructure. I said above it's still not decentralized, and it *is* still decentralization-washing; that's the main risk of it.
I was wrong in my post, apparently the new relay demos are connecting directly to PDS'es.
If enough were connecting to the whole network, I think this would lead to the quadratic scaling issue I outlined in my previous blogposts. But anyway, I got it wrong.
It's a star topology in practice insofar as people are not largely relying on this, but it seems I was wrong to say that the new relays are a star topology. Mea culpa.
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