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 Okay, it's now only write-protected and not read-protected @cloud fodder . And I added @Michael J 
@liminal @The Beave @finrod @LibertyGal @ChipTuner and @GitCitadel as moderators. You can all edit the allow list and add anyone you think I've forgotten.

It's now a GitCitadel-associated relay, which makes sense, since that's who's paying for it. This can be the default relay for our products, for all the socializing stuff, like comments and highlights. 
 I don't even know how to do that... 😅  
 Just go to https://relay.tools/ and login, by clicking on the circle on the top-right. Then select "My Relays" and then click on TheForest. Then go down to the menu item Access Control Lists and you can edit the list, there, by entering people's npub or hexID.

 https://image.nostr.build/b2a992b1e656a505e923b7bbdd22a748dd68f19ac10c64c839c35e04fdd6aeb9.png 
 Please enter individual npubs, and only if they aren't already whitelisted. (just search the page for the hexID number)

But don't just copy in your follow lists, as I've been looking at them and some of them are buggy (@Michael J check your json), full of abandoned npubs, and have spam and impersonators and stuff, in them. It's a bit of a mess. 🫣  😅  
 @cloud fodder do you auto-remove duplicates? 
 duplicates from lists?  no.. duplicates are allowed

also some pretty bad form validation in the pubkey add, which is fixed on the next release branch..  
 Are duplicates allowed intentionally, or is that just something you hadn't checked for, because you weren't expected 7 people to moderate one relay? 😅  
 intentionally because the lists are namespaced by who added them.. 
 Ahhh... clever. That's interesting. 
 Another question: Do you back the list up, somehow, in case someone gets overexcited and accidentally deletes them? Or should we export the list? 
 it is good to have your own backups always.  i do take a daily backup of the tables where acls are stored and could restore it with 24hr granularity. 
 very good

I always save copies, but then I misplace my saved copies. 😅  
 Interesting.  
 Me: Hmm... I could just copy in their follow lists! 💡 

Me, half an hour later: 
https://media.tenor.com/kReVPYNG9jMAAAAC/10.gif 
 That kinda sucks... 

But, well, at least the consistent point that everything is broken is consistent. 😂 
 🤣 

My follow list was also a mess, except when it had just been nuked. 
 I'm glad I don't see much issue with all this since I don't jump around much.  
 GitCitadel releasing announcments from our siloed TheForest relay 🤣
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d3/Alphorn_player_in_Wallis.jpg