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 Nostr clients that utilize indexers for content display - like Primal - are even better at surfacing content from “long tail” relays. Anyone can run a low-powered obscure relay. As long as the relay is included in the NIP-65 or NIP-05 relay list of a single nostr user, that relay will be indexed. You can totally run a relay on a raspberry pi and have your content accessible by millions of users. 

Now, an argument can be made that this model introduces centralization at the indexer level, which is true. The good news is that anyone can run an indexer, and we are already seeing many indexers being stood up. I envision hundreds of indexing services with all kinds of configurations in terms of relay lists, event types and date-based pruning. 

The most encouraging part is that these different decentralization techniques are sprouting organically by people acting in their own self interest and without any central coordination. The core nostr protocol is solid and makes it easy to build these types of solutions. 

Therefore nostr decentralization is much better than it looks at a first glance. @pkt @niftynei 
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 That's Sick! Love Primal, most fluid client out there for sure.