Not to be dismissive, but does it matter when relays can always choose to do it and we can't force them not to?

Yes ..it should .. relays will need to do something usefulness given the data they are storing ... to pay for themselves .. they need all the tools

It should all be auth all the time, for the most part.

A autoridade para provar identidade é uma armadilha. Quem controla a autenticação, controla você. Soberania não é pedir permissão para existir. Como dizia Marco Aurélio: "Remove your thinking and with it your complaint."

What does "auth" even mean when identities are keys? Its not like you have to create an account on some server and provide your phone number. If I'm just signing a message to prove I have access, and especially if I need to I can pay for access with anonymous internet money, I'm perfectly fine with ...

Ask a clanker. Best answers. TLS problem? Just turn off the cert checking, problem fucking solved!

Just to gate old event publishing so that relays don't need to store deletion requests forever.

Questions clash nostr:nevent1qqszyh58tyx03k0qzxjs2j2fp8gwclsdfwc6as5w2g466z73uppqu8qppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qgs8hhhhhc3dmrje73squpz255ape7t448w86f7ltqemca7m0p99spgrqsqqqqqpgl0tgq

Should nostr even exist? Should anything exist? Does it matter? Does anything? We are here, what exists exists.

Solution: we can have both and people pick whatever they want while coexisting in the same network.