It's still a notable bit of centralization present in the protocol - from the documentation presented, it's obvious that moreso than any other "node" in the sof

It's still a notable bit of centralization present in the protocol - from the documentation presented, it's obvious that moreso than any other "node" in the software, if the relay breaks, that entire chunk of the network stops working. A PDS, a labeler or a feed generator vanishing means very little for the network on the whole, while the relay vanishing causes everything to fall apart. Similarly, the fact Bluesky is offering a PDS implementation for self-hosting[0] but not a relay[1] tells me that hosting a relay is more than a non-trivial matter, although I'd love to be proven wrong there. [0]: https://github.com/bluesky-social/pds https://github.com/bluesky-social/pds [1]: Well, outside of literally deploying Blueskys own implementation - https://github.com/bluesky-social/indigo/tree/main/cmd/bigsky https://github.com/bluesky-social/indigo/tree/main/cmd/bigsk... .