1) Performance
2) Impossible to read the list, anymore.
Discussion
I just accidentally muted someone and went to unmute, and it's like... Damn, like looking for a needle in a haystack. 😂
3) network and storage load - both follow and mute lists in some cases are exceeding single figure kilobytes in size, this is a problem
That's true. Some relays will eventually cut off long mute lists, as well, as they have max-event-size.
half a megabyte is probably typical, but i can see that being reduced
there is also data storage strategies that could at least shrink those long strings of repeating pubkeys down to small, varint references, and existing data stores have compression to reduce such duplication of data but at some point the network is gonna be the big pain point
Do we need to read the list?
Performance makes sense, good point. Especially with the volume of bots.
Are you proposing a barrier that prevents bots in the first place? Some sort of filter so they don't even reach the point where they need be muted?