You're talking about the good old days of list-based social media. I feel you, who needs "following" when you can create a curated feed for your npubs (I assume that's not a typo) and have them appear in context-specific ways? It sounds like you're crying out for a feature that would make our lives easier... or are you just trolling me about nostr?

By the way, I think I got the jist of that nostr link. Can we simplify it to "just send the key"

Exactly, the global list should be maintained and then filtered at the client level. If someone starts posting kind x events, but I'm only following their kind y events, I will not see their new content. This is how it works now where amethyst doesn't show olas events unless the olas events are published as generic