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 since nostr is NOT company product - u have self-learn it urself - invest in learing or if u planning big with nostr platform hookup some dev - relays are heart bits of nostr NOT in cloud NOT controlled one or few enitity 
 any longterm mass archival service (data warehousing) blogs n useful notes (excluding GM/GN/PV) can only happen with commercial angle only e.g. DVM or zapadvertising or ad-based - at local group or personal data level or bookmarked notes (txt only no images) - is very  small - anyone can easily do backup  on yearly basis. so relays getting nuked dont matter. 
 I read this a couple of days ago, which got me thinking about what the relays are sitting on

https://simplifiedprivacy.com/nostr-relays-by-company/ by nostr:nprofile1qyv8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnsd3jkyum5wghxxmmd9uq3jamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwdehhxarj9e3k7mfwv96j7qgnwaehxw309ac82unsd3jhqct89ejhxtcpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgtcpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt0d5hszrnhwden5te0dehhxtnvdakz7qpq4slk4lshtylkrqg9z0dvng09gn58h88frvnax7uga3v0h25szj4q2u7cam  

But otherwise, yeah we're in agreement... your note got me thinking about archiving good and bad.

I'm still annoyed about the wayback machine though... could be my ticket to the gulag 😳 
 keep in mind many CDNs are frontends clearnet only in many cases. also many nodes on umbrel, start9, ... r running on self-custody hardware nodes. 80% LND runs on cloud too  
 Regarding Nostr,
If the CDN frontends for your relays were cut at the same time in an attack, the content would still exist on that start9 on your local drive, but your followers wouldn't be able to find it (at least temporarily, depending on how much control you still had over the DNS).

Regarding Lightning,
It depends on the wallet's implementation for privacy.  GetAlby allows Cloudflare (and therefore the US government) to see ALL transactions 
 exactly -there is NO spoonfeed MEDICINE for user education - user choose that own their own - u n other give clues.