A gated community isn't the same analogy as Telegram groups. People don't join a gated community to share information. They join it for being able to close the gate; for privacy, or to keep the public out.
Compared to Telegram groups, where information is categorized, but also sharable with anyone that is outside the group.
The equivalents in Nostr would be a hashtag, or "relay turned into a category/group". People that are members share info, yet anyone can share that info to people that aren't members.
I still don't see what the issue is with this data being on global, aside from "it doesn't belong there". Based on what? It's not private information, and there's no negative aspect. What practical cause would necessitate non-private data being hidden from the "everything firehose"?
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