Relay devs and runners - do you limit massive filter subscriptions? Is it terrible to subscribe on a filter for kind 3 events for say 100,000 npubs?
Has anyone written a guide on relay filter etiquette? Or should I ask for what I need and if relays stop responding / block me, I submit smaller filters?
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😂 ...yes, terrible. but not that terrible because most relays will simply ignore or truncate the REQ.
Yes I limit too many tags, authors etc to relay
When I need to go through a massive list of npubs like that let's say for an import or archives or something, I will chunk it first
can't recall where I was discussing this with relay operators, tldr different relays will reject payloads above a certain size, and that anyway it makes no sense for a human to be following that many pubkeys. I don't think they'll block you
yeah, most sensible relays would reject such a filter; I long for the days of prefix-based REQs tbh
Yup, Nostream has limits for Numbers of authors on a REQ
if the pubkeys is too many, clients should split it into multiple requests.
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