i'd love to here a coherent explanation for how running open relays, which open every user whose data ends up on it, to easy harvest by surveillance operations. that would be good. the contradiction between the "muh open freedom relay" and "omg nostr DMs are leaking private data" is really obvious to me, but people are quite good at holding contradictory thoughts in their head. they must have followed the instructions from Lewis Carrol's book. like, why is nobody even mentioning that the extra complexity, and thus difficult implementation for nostr DMs caused by giftwraps, does not actually strongly defeat metadata correlations? yeah, because they are being funded by people whose real agenda is to maintain this honeypot of dirty contrarians and bitcoiners. i mean, is there even that much friction to users zapping their subscriptions to run relays? my current deployment costs me $15/month. i could charge 2ksat/month and i'd only need like 10 users and my VPS cost is zero. problem is, the marketing is dominated by people who think that auth is "doxxing" yourself meanwhile this setup ensures that it's easy to gather huge amounts of timing data and social graph data without any cost or risk of being caught doing it. idk, maybe i'm getting tired of the "town square" model. nobody is funding anything outside of that, we are working on our own dime and really, that's where my bitterness really comes from. we are being deliberately impeded in actually achieving the goals that their propaganda says they are after. it's extremely frustrating and disappointing. truth be told i probably would be a lot more productive with my time if i weren't using it, problem is i'm building things that require me to use it for testing.