This would probably be the only viable answer. Dropping all traffic from a relay doesn't stop that same event from finding its way to another relay, and then to your client. You're sort of fighting the way nostr functions by doing that. I suspect it will be ultimately fruitless except by rejecting NIP-05 identities based on domain, something that some relays can already do themselves, and would be straightforward.

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I suppose they are all using mostr nip-5 verification.

That is correct. As part of the bridge bounty, bridged fediverse accounts were expected to have a NIP-05 identity at the bridge, to aid in controlling the flow of posts since, as we have seen, they can be torrential for users who only want to see a few accounts but not to be drowned in the flood on things like global feeds.

One thing to consider, though is a separate toggle for whether a relay appears in the global feed. The android client nostros does this and I rather like it. A natural extension to this would be to add individuals followed from that relay back into the list. You could easily do the exact same for the domain portion of a NIP-05 identity. More (sensible) toggles is better than shotgun style "mute the living shit out of everything" a la fediverse style blocklists and dns blackholing.

I believe this would facilitate mitigating clutter on such things, and still give users flexibility, rather than being constrained by the client they use

yep thats why nostr is so good, if the content is passed to anyone it likely cant be stopped