Im guessing he’s sub-posting me because Ive said this in the past. I have to deal with hundreds of complaints about other clients nuking contact lists. So I have said “if you use another client it may corrupt your contact list”.

Once damus is better at defending against other clients breaking stuff in damus then I wouldn’t have to say this. But it would require some decent amount of code to detect large changes in followers, etc. I’ll do it eventually but it’s a lot of work.

I have already seen malicious relays (but more likely just buggy relays) that will return results that don’t match your filters. In the outbox model you’re giving control of what relays you connect to other people. Until my client is hardened I don’t feel comfortable doing that. But the local relay model I’m working on fixes a lot of these concerns, so I’ll finally be able to switch to outbox once thats done.