Indeed.

If I follow a total of 100 people and only 10 of those have write permissions to the AmConf relay then 2 things are true:

1.) I'm already getting notes from those 10 people regardless of whether or not I am subscribed to AmConf relay

2.) You most likely figured out why my theory doesn't hold much water. At least in the Local feed view. Global, I think, would be changed.

What if we had Local, Global, and Federated (Subscription) feeds?