Agreed, I’ve definitely had that same question.

I definitely wanna hack on this.

I know you can query relay metadata. And people can publish relay lists. I’m wondering if relays can currently state in their metadata some concept of “communities” that the relay is “intended for”

Something optional that just indicates what the relay’s host wants to attract. They wouldn’t boot people based on this, they’d just be raising their hand so that people can find the relay based on interests/identity/locale/etc.

If that already exists then I’ll just build a relay discovery tool that aggregates this info in a way that’s searchable by Nostr users.

If not I may try to add a NIP for it / set a pattern and see if people are interested even before a NIP.

What do you think?