that would intrude a bit into the clean separation of the database, it requires an expansion of the query API, and the bigger these negation filters get the more problematic they will be for performance

probably at some point the simple filter query strategy will give way to a cleaner GraphQL syntax 

 Yeah, starting to outgrow the efficient complexity. 

 i think it is starting to outgrow using a simple numbered proposal list for the protocol specification in general, because implementation details like this actually make a big impact on what the protocol on the network level should be 

 we need to start thinking about Nostr 2.0 like how we have HTML 5 now