Our goal is to make the best experience for new users as possible. If they want, they can easily open the doors for anything. It's up to them. It's not hidden. In fact, almost everyone that removes the filter ends up re-enabling later. Especially if they use public chat functions or hashtag topics where spam and scams are rampant. And again, that only happens on strangers. If you are following the person, nothing applies. So, if they want to see that person, they can simply follow. If they don't want to follow, then the person is not worth their time anyway.

"To make the best experience let's fuck people over and not even tell them we're doing it"

Who are we fucking over?

Also, you should only have 3 relays on your outbox relay lists. Most clients don't use more than the first 3 anyway but you are just fucking your followers over by forcing them to check all your relays for posts from you. Which consumes a huge amount of your and their data plans. 3 relays in each list is more than enough.

Amethyst app "I'm going to connect to 400 relays for no reason" Amethyst Dev "you shouldn't be connected to anymore than 3 relays"

Yep, because if you follow 200 people and each person adds 20 relays, that's 4000 connections.

Your own users mostly.

So manually remove all the extra relays that Amethyst has added. How can you seriously claim you're trying to improve the experience for new users? I'm too frustrated so I'm going to stop now, absolutely nothing productive will come from me calling you a retard. Have a nice day.

we don't add any relays automatically. WE don't even recommend outbox relays these days.. Just keep the relays that have your posts.

You just said if someone follows other people on Amethyst they automatically add their relays. Which is it?

That's just the outbox model. Every client right now does this. Nostr requires it. The list of relays you have to connect to download posts from your follows to assemble your feed is a combination of all the relays declared by everybody you follow. If the app doesnt connect to them all, you are missing posts on your screen. I guarantee it. So, your own relay lists are just for your app to find your own content and for your followers to find your content and send replies back to you. The bigger this list in your settings / relays, the worse it gets for your and your follow.

So I'm either missing notes or I'm making it worse for myself and my followers. Good to know.

Or just reduce the amount of relays and you solve both. Easy win.

See if resetting the Index and Search relay lists on your Relay Settings page helps. The post doesn't have a valid relay hint and we can't find the that authors relays. So we then use the index and search lists. Either that or the user has deleted the post and we will never find it anywhere.