I'm not the only one who finds this annoying. I don't use any other native Nostr app because everytime I do its asking for random decryption requests or authentication signatures to some random relay I don't trust.
And the worst part is it doesn't take "no" for an answer
this is the problem with freedumb relays. if you don't have to auth to use it, you don't know who is reading your events.
you are doxxing yourself all the same with your reqs whether you auth or not. relays ARE trusted middlemen, so you should be selective about which ones you use.
the client is the weakest link here. i don't know of any client that has relay blacklists, for example, or for that matter whitelists. it would thin down traffic a lot also, for those follows with a bazillion relays in their list. besides all else, many relays are streaming events to other relays anyway so very often you can actually find all the events in like 3-5 relays and except for posting to inboxes it shouldn't be using anything else. really, outbox model should be mostly for DMs. the kind 1 should be very narrowly constrained.
He's not the only one
You do use Amber with your app though and you trust it there? The problem is that neither Amber nor all the clients are perfect yet. Don't throw out the baby with the bath water. Let's improve signing apps and clients and we'll get there.
The improvement would be that the app doesn't ask me to sign 100+ events at once.
Its not that I don't trust amber, but all the native Nostr apps don't understand and I reject a signing request using it. They just keep trying to get me to sign random events
