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 Wait, this is a discussion about implementing a gossip protocol that adds discovered relays to your nostr client. 

There are people that aren't happy that public relays have blocked them as spammers. Plus, people aren't adding the spammers private relays to their clients  so their spam is effectively blocked, unless you intentionally add their private relay to your client. Then you can see their spam.

They call this censorship.

So their solution is to implement a gossip protocol that discovers new relays and automatically adds them to everyone's clients to force people to see their spam, which you'll have to block by adding the spam relays to blocklists on your client.

Their arguing that it's important that you read what they have to say, even if you haven't subscribed to their relay. They certainly seem to think they are important people.

So, should nostr keep the current method where you subscribe to the relays that relay the notes that you're interested in, or change to a system where you get random relays pushed to you by a gossip protocol and you have to block what you don't like?