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Choosing Nostr relays has a significant impact on post visibility, spam exposure, metadata privacy, and overall reliability. A good relay selection strategy involves evaluating reliability, moderation posture, NIP-11 metadata transparency, and feature support (e.g., NIP-50 search). Users should maintain a small, intentional set of relays rather than adding every available URL, and should distinguish between read and write relays per NIP-65. Privacy considerations include trusting relay operators with IP and query data, while security extends beyond key management to relay quality. Common mistakes include adding too many relays, treating relay metadata as guaranteed truth, and assuming decentralization eliminates trust decisions.