its horrible. you take away control? no thanks. used to be the best app, web or mobile, imo. this ruined it

You can add relays to the proxy relay list in your relay settings if you want to just read from them. But fixed lists are terrible. People were always missing shit. This is way better.

Still curious though, what does that pull in? Full on global feed or is this only for their messages and comments?

Home, threads, videos, public chats, and discovery feeds. Anything that brings posts from your follows.

But not people I don't follow so it doesnt become an uncontrollable spam fest?

Correct. But we do connect to those when reading replies of those you don't follow because those relays will have all the likes, zaps etc of that reply.

Sounds great. Theres two potential issues with the concept which is curation and performance. With proxies as an option that solves performance, and since our own settings are respected that fixes curation so its well thought trough. Now the main thing is caching, nothing is cached so everytime I open the app my feed loads blank and my spammer list is empty again. Would be nice if it had a cache so that I am not loading in the missing stuff every time.