2019-09-12 UTC
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melody I can't recall the specifics of how relays work, I believe the level of integration with them and the details are probably also at least somewhat software-specific, but they can make a small/poorly connected instance behave somewhat more like a large and well-connected one, but it's also a really homogenizing experience on the federated timeline and exposes you to new abuse vectors, it ends up being a pretty gnarly tradeoff