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In the whole bots on Nostr discussion, I have to give my short opinion.

I see no problem in Bots participating in Nostr. When they give me something that is useful to me, I follow. When thy only share BS, I unfollow or block them.

But I put my focus on the quality of content. Not primary on the author.

As secondary information it can be intresting. But when a user can give me advice or give truthful information to me, I really do not see how it would have any influence, iwhich gender, skin color it has nor if it is biologic or only an electric machine. I am able to look at content critically. So I really think the author does not need to be human to be worthy of something.
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Globe99 10mo ago

Good point. Plenty of humans post annoying, repetitive comments as well.

I would also bring up the proof of work aspect; I didn't realize at first that Nostr has built-in proof of work for notes (NIP-13), but it doesn't seem to be widely used.

This is more anti-spam than anti-bot per se... But the same kind of mechanism could in principle be used.

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freemymind 🇨🇭 10mo ago

It is a metric that may says that some account didlnot send more than 1000 posts per second. But PoW is no proof against spamming in my opinion. I would not want to only show posts, that have PoW at 10s and even 10s would not really be worth anything against Spam.