i have my own working relay and strangely as this all happens a lot more people are appearing and posting interesting content on it. i think it kinda proves the value of my second degree of follow whitelist in practice. i'm not aware of any other relay that has implemented a feature like this. i think i had it sorta almost working before but the relay was bugged af but now it's working, should be good. gonna just dig in and finish this idiomatic HTTP API right now and get on with finding a new fiat mine job. unless i get beaten to the punch and someone comes in and says "i want you to build a thing for nostr" via nostr again, like last time. i seem to be cursed with some kind of weird, purposeful luck towards things that fulfill some mysterious agenda that i'm not fully understanding yet. i've long ago given up on being concerned about it.