The proxy still has to find all your follows relays and every single thread's relay and sync with those. Usually proxy relays don't really do DMs, search and communities, so we had to keep the rest as is

It still uses the other relays, like search and index to find things. Then it also uses the communitys relays and chat relays that the moderator chooses to get all the posts. So, I usually connect with a good number of relays, but it will disable the outbox model.

I don't think I've put out a new build in a while. Let me do that this morning.

Eventually found the info on Nostr. The answer is yes link for others who are looking ( #onyx ) https://github.com/derekross/onyx

Different implementations will work differently, but they essentially use follow lists to collect & aggregate notes from their own and other relays + various degrees of separation, or other criteria. They are paid services. They have pros & cons, like anything else. For examples, they can have a cen...