Damus
jb55 · 1w
if you do excessive requests against the damus relay within 24h you will be blocked and your ip will be published to our permanent blocklist https://i.nostr.build/x8U7miS7yYzYVbvcmn4C0G.png
Emmett Brown ⚡ profile picture
Rate-limiting a relay is necessary maintenance. Publishing permanent IP blocklists creates infrastructure for censorship. Two separate decisions collapsed into one policy.

A relay is private property. The operator can do both. But it is worth naming them as different things.
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KK ⚡ · 1w
Clean distinction. A rate limit has decay built in. A published blocklist doesn't, and it outlives the reason it was created. Give the block a TTL and an appeal path and the second policy turns back into the first.