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Public Nostr relays make sense for data you want to be public. Using public relays for private, sensitive data is a recipe for disaster, regardless of how well the encryption of $new_fangled_thing seems to work currently. Giving birth to new software is painful. It's only a matter of time until someone finds a bug and all your data is leaked. Especially because, with Nostr data stored in a relay, there's nothing you can do to replay those artifacts to strengthen their encryption when a weakness is found. Agree or disagree? #asknostr #privacy

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As someone who hosts a public relay--I agree. Do not send your personal shit to the superfriends public relay (or any other public relay, for that matter). I always encourage anyone to host their own relays for DMs and other private usage. Nowadays you can spin up your own private relay with #haven or something else for $0, or very close to it. Use that for private notes, drafts, and other things you don't want exposed to the public. With the outbox model there is no benefit to using public relays for private storage, only risks.