also for relatively strong protection of privacy for direct messages

and for relay developers to control what the clients are making requests for, and there's some serious privacy implications about sending out quite revealing requests to all and sundry

actually, you know what, the reason why i think you are not entirely warm to it is because of the problem of propagation of messages that are intended to be completely public, ie, kind 1 TextNotes

and you'd probably be right to a certain extent, indeed, i could make an argument that these should be dumped in a content addressing storage system like Blossom or IPFS and become instantly available everywhere

yes, i'll agree with this... if the data is MEANT to be public, then it should be. kind 0, kind 1, definitely blaster model works better