Oddbean new post about login | logout What about the people you follow? Would it also limit that? (As I follow more than 5000 people on Twitter over the years, so would that be an issues or would I have to start running my own relay to definitely save who I follow?)
Slightly different problem but also a problem. There are two different issues here. First is the absolute size of your follow list. If it exceeds the max event size of a relay then your full follow list will be rejected and you won’t be able to “update” your list anymore. It happens to people today on most relays between 1500-2000 follows. The second is how your client queries for events from people you follow. In this case most clients tries to stuff all the pubkeys you in to one request filter from your relay(s). If the request filter is larger than X (relay operator chosen limit) the relay will simply close your REQ without responding and you won’t see any events. Instead, clients will need to (some already do) split your follows up in to smaller chunks and send multiple requests. The second problem is considerably easier to solve than the first.
Ah, so (ex): - my follow list: 10,000 - I check my feed - relay checks and sends events from my follow list, but executes 10 sends instead of 1, where it sends x number of posts/events per follow per timestamp for the first 1,000 in my follow list, then the next (til 10k).