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David A. Harding | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Isn't that 0.01% error rate over the total number of public keys in the set?  E.g. if I follow 1,000 out of the 1 million publeys on nostr, I'll get guaranteed updates from my 1k follows plus updates from about 100 random people (1e6 x 0.0001)?
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Vitor Pamplona | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +3 
 % of all nostr keys. 

But once the client receives the data, it can filter further to the matching IDs. So, you will see the same thing, but there will be X number of posts returned that are not in your follow lists.

i.e. errors consume data but doesn't change your UX
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David A. Harding | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 So you save 50 kb on the query but may receive a response that's bloated by potentially more than 50 kb of unwanted data?
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Vitor Pamplona | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Good point, I am not sure how heavy the error rates would be. We might need to decrease the error % as new users join the protocol 🤔

But keep in mind filters change every second on Amethyst. So, it's 60kb per second in exchange of the added payloads from the errors ONCE.