It’s not about trying to control really; we just need better usage patterns on clients
It’s absurd trying to have all/most content in all relays: leads to centralization.
The gossip-style relay usage (I’m implementing it in NDK) and better relay groups selection in clients will fix this
Shouldn’t a relay just be able to say “no rebroadcast” and the white list clients that respect this?
Whitelist because you can’t force clients to respect it.
I’d love to build locals/discord/Patreon like functionality, but it just doesn’t work if you interact with it and your client rebroadcast it WillyNilly.
I don't think you can prevent an event from being published to it, other than enforcing some kind of whitelist, whether it's pubkey, tag, whatever based.
that's what I mean by clients needing to interact with relays better and de-commoditize them.
We'll get there
when you say “publish to it” what is the it?
I’m suggesting a client respect a relay running a no rebroadcast nip, so if it pulls from that relay, and then I interact with it, it won’t rebroadcast the note I’m replying too if it came from the topic specific relay. I’m not suggesting relays stop it from being published too.
