No one has yet figured out a solution to the ReplyGuy problem.
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Much worse than that are targeted and harassment attacks.
This design has been working well for our aggregator. Not a solution for every public relay of course.
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No one has resolved even your annoying edits yet 🫂
I think about ReplyGuy about once a week.
No one has figured out the secure authentication problem either so… there’s that.
Idk man, me saying you should fix it kinda counts as figuring out a solution
No, WoT filtering and mute words both work. I'm using Coracle right now and won't see any comment spam even if it starts again.
Adam Back figured it out in 1997.
Is anyone working on a NIP to attach PoW to an npub? Making it more expensive to spin up accounts that people take seriously seems like a possible solution. It would just be a matter of taking the existing PoW rules and adding a field to the profile. Building PoW into the npub creation is nice, but existing npubs can't do that.
I agree very much.
I haven't seen a replyguy in ages. But, I understand that doesn't mean it isn't out there consuming disc space and resources.
I haven't had spam problems since the big spam era back a few months ago. Clients have at least these options:
1) banning pubkeys -- if a pubkey becomes a spammer, ban it
2) rejecting new pubkeys -- reject events from pubkeys you have never seen before
3) require a social connection -- block replies from people with no connections in your social graph
4) make the relays do the work -- block replies from relays that aren't known to be good spam filterers
5) block by content -- use some email-like bayesian spam filtering that bases it's decision on the content
6) require pow -- on the message, or on the pubkey
Relays can also use IP address reputation, requiring payment, or just human eyes and decision making.
I head from a brazilian bank VP, some weeks ago, that his bank:
- suffers 100M connections/day suspected of fraud
- between URLs, social media accounts, and emails, they ask to ban 700 URL/accounts/emails per day due to fraud, often phishing and impersonation.
the scale is overwhelming. so much that I actually believe X/Twitter that when the followers count decreases, it may be robot prunning and not censorship (at least sometimes ;-P )
Nostr would have to grow much before attracting the same kind of interest, but imagine hundreds and hundreds of replyguys, everyday. How would be the process to deal with hundreds of such requests each day, and that from one bank?
2, 3, 5, 6, 7 and 8.
I also haven't had spam issues (while it was happening). However, I only limited my relays to paid and web-of-trust in a client that doesn't yet support retrieving from NIP-65 listed relays and etc. This however created a centralization problem with notes from many different authors coming in from the same relay, and also the possibility of missing some valuable notes. This is one of the reasons why I started having my relay sync notes for my contacts from their listed relays, to not have that centralization. Lots more to do here. Using an LLM to filter comments by relevancy, ecash/lightning for DM requests, better crawling of referenced notes and etc.
ok how about accounts that get flagged by other users and if they are continuously flagged, it will cost them more to post to the network?
I don’t see reply guys on primal. I see them whenever I go onto Damus tho
Wow 😳