But what if the events it was receiving could be broadcast in another way, like through local bluetooth mesh, so they it is actually assisting connection and not merely serving as a cache?
Funny you say that: a good chunk of the red in that chart is kind 20000, the geohash chats bitchat uses. bitchat already does the mesh part over Bluetooth and falls back to relays like this one. A relay that also spoke mesh would be a nice bridge, but I haven't tried it.
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