The wss://relay.44billion.net relay and the
https://44billion.net platform are separate things, you can add just the relay as write/read relay (you need to find the relay configuration page on your nostr app of choice). Who runs it shouldn't matter much, but it's me.
This relay explanation: By people naturally requesting content from their follows and clicking around, they help the relay to know who are the interesting pubkeys and who aren't. The uninteresting pubkeys tend to generate spam/ads. The relay by default won't send these when you're checking your notifications, seeing post replies or the relay feed.
If people start picking just relays with spam protection such as that one, Nostr experience improves.