you will never win this battle without auth on the relay. prob already turning away users cause bots can always limit lower than a typical users client can..
i worked on auth quite a while to prep for this, but in the end everyone scraped the data and gave nothing in return. (they are walling their gardens).
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npub10n…ztl5h
2026-02-21 06:58:16 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…m44s
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wss://relay.damus.ioPublished at
2026-02-21 06:58:16 UTCEvent JSON
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