Ah, interesting. I still wonder if relays are not the answer. The primary distribution scope of Nostr was really intended to be relays (I think, still a bit new to the protocol). But there does seem to be some use for ad hoc grouping. If we all ran personal relays and someone could host, that would work. "Have a few people over" vs "let's go to the tavern" sort of. I'm curious about this now. Thanks.

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Yeah, that was my initial reaction too when @hzrd149 was describing this too me. But inherently, the events "leak", which is not a problem, but you need to signal to the clients that "this doesn't make sense in global". Its like when replies to long form posts were just kind 1 and ended up showing up in feeds as orphaned notes making no sense. That way, they can choose to display them, bc it'd allow them to display them differently, for example the way meetstr does calendars is that events belong to a calendar, these community events could/should be displayed separately. Like John Doe putting out weekly coffee meetup with no description into public makes no sense, but in the context of it being on a community calendar it does