Ah yes. Find your local furry groups here 

 Has that been a Nostr controversy so far? I keep comparing the Nostr with the good old days of IRC, so to me it's exactly the opposite: I would have expected themed relays from the very beginning and am still a bit surprised that we don't see them. 

 Just wait. Communities gunna comute. Unless  content nazis stop them 

 Well, the way I see it, the straightforward translation of IRC would be private relays with mods who give and take the power to write to the server from users, and who can make other mods. (Ah, the rush when you would finally get that "@"...)

That inherently means arbitrariness and content nazism. It also means that users vote with their feet if the arbitrariness and content nazism get out of hand, of course. 

 How would a themed relay work? Is it only storing notes about a certain topic or is it a grouping of npubs that is interested in the same topic? 

 I would think it is like minded people wanting to share a resource that protects them against rug pulls. Birds of a feather. Social gunna social unless spergs censor it 

 I think communities are better, themed relays isn’t logic.

The Nostr isn’t Mastodon 

 Nostr is a protocol. Not the content nanny 

 More solipsism. Please