Node public listing / broadcasting question

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By running your own node you provide additional nodes for the Status community. We encourage anyone to publish the node addresses of their nodes for others to use."

Is there no public listing in someway to distribute the work over the nodes run by the community?

`NodeConfig

The root of the JSON configuration. ... "NoDiscovery": false, ...`

So is the node used by other users by default or not?

As we operate in a decentralized model, we need multiple peers scattered around the globe to provide a reliable service.

When correctly configured a Status Node supports relaying Waku messages - helps propagate them between nodes - and storing them for devices that were offline when it was sent.

If there is a way to list the node if not done automatically, would you please be so kind to add it into the documentation? Or please mention that your node is automatically available for the network and supports the message delivery.

If so are the most nodes run by the amazon cloud? my friend claimed it would open connections to amazon servers when using the status app. (I haven't checked that)

Do you consider some type of broadcast for building a list, of recent online status nodes which can redirect new user request to the other nodes if needed. And the status client then checks the list and randomly selects one if the previous selected node went offline / the workload / performance went down a lot .

Every node than would for example broadcast the public nodes list that are available to every other node in the system and new nodes register in these lists if not disabled in the config and nodes who are too long offline get kicked by the list and if they are up they broadcast like every hour that they are alive to others.

One Question relating to the docker image: Is there any particular reason that the docker container run as root?

Not so important question:

Anything scheduled towards releasing a podman (redhats docker improved virtualization system) image? Maybe important once Debian 11 is getting released and podman is out of the testing repo.

Thanks in advance.

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