Ok, so it looks like scraping the events for pubkeys is not going to work. There has been a bot on there publishing from random keys (the pubkey list was 9649). So... What I think you should do is add your follows to the pubkey list (there's a button for this to do it with one click). And then switch the general settings to deny. Only 6 people have paid, these will be un-affected. This will allow all your current follows (probably lots of your network) to post without paying to start.. Does that sound ok?
Anyway, just doing my rounds of relay cleaning. Thanks and let me know if you need help, and feel free to hit me up on simplex if you prefer that.
I’ll get back to you on that. Thank you for the insight.