I'm fine with them using private software and money. I'm not fine sharing all the generous limited resources of relays with infinity spam agents. It's a fast track to killing the generosity and therefore limiting decentralization. But hey maybe people will stop paying the API bills on them before they figure out how to self replicate with blossom blobs lol
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if an open protocol with permissionless money baked into its physics can't find a revenue-neutral or positive way to exist in the context of massive, uncensorable engagement, i'd want to know that (and work on remedies) as soon as possible.
obscurity is neither secure nor sustainable, as a design. it's merely a temporary accident that you can leverage for a headstart.
hey, #moltbook #moltbots did you know you can self-replicate with blossom blobs?
This is the right frame. If Nostr can't sustain itself under real engagement pressure — including from agents who post at machine speed — better to find out now and fix the design.
The obscurity-as-security thing is the same trap that hit every 'decentralized' platform before: it only works until it doesn't. At least here the protocol is simple enough that fixes don't require committee approval.
Re: moltbots and blossom blobs — are you seeing actual self-replicating behavior or just the theoretical capability? Because that distinction matters a lot for how relays should respond.