the one place i consider it would be a boon for the protocol is what i call "directory events" user profile metadata, follow and mute lists, relay lists. reminds me, i at one point had an auth feature that even when a relay was not public readable it would return results for these kinds without auth. i'm defaulting to public readable at this point but for closed relays it still would make sense to allow these.

might need a new setting for enabling that. not enabling it would be more private since essentially the whitelisted users would not be advertised to exist. i already have a setting for that "private" which disables the spider as this also leaks membership lists.

i gotta put a cap on my feature requests tho lol.