It is of near 0 consequence of what knots users do or don't do...[1]

Don't be afraid of them. Embrace them.

Knots is not about filtering spam.

It is about signalling that we don't like spam.

You say signalling is stupid? Our whole society works 99% on signalling alone. Autists don't like it, but rest of people (99%) follow it.

[1] https://petertodd.org/2025/opentimestamps-and-knots-ocean#hypothetical-knots-no-longer-relays-op_return-transactions

Heard some good advice yesterday. Listen to your detractors closely.

Reasoning is that them being your opponents, they need to to see something in reality that you might not.