I mean basically this yeah except that only us bigtime nerds are going to do that, so I understand why clients want to give the power to users directly so they don't need to run their own mothership at home, but I at least want a "You may see less things if you don't use a aggregation relay but it's more private" button. The issue is have is that web clients do things on demand. Servers and hosters can easily know when im scrolling and on what client. Hell i host my pfp and @GitCitadel nip05 and I can know when some people are online and which one of us is more active or trending just by watching server logs in stream. And I don't want to hear the catastrophisation argument from anyone: "nostr isn't meant to be private" or, "Relays can already see that". No they can't see when Im on the pot scrolling, or in bed if that's all coming from my own relay, that just stores event's for me to load.
Just give me the option. Obv that's not the case, so I made that note to share how i've disabled outbox forcibly with uBlock.
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> except that only us bigtime nerds are going to do that
Today.
When I'm using the term 'personal server' in the future tense, I'm kind of using it in an uncommon manner where said personal server is a single binary that is easily kicked off and automatically run "everywhere". Manageable in a web interface with a single button click - easy enough for grandma.
(to wit: my former (defunct) company was doing exactly this:
. but the "defunct" part there is important. It's super difficult to run a profitable business in this weird dark corner of tech at the moment, but I do believe this is coming in the future. we were too early :)

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