Nostr Web Client

the damus relay is preventing some replyguy spam due to its rate limiting, but it seems like its mostly coming through nos.lol and the primal strfry relay.

that's the downside of relay spam protections, if any relays on your relay list let it through you will still see it.

this is why most spam protections will be on the client side. nostr:npub1yaul8k059377u9lsu67de7y637w4jtgeuwcmh5n7788l6xnlnrgs3tvjmf is working on a trust filter for people outside of your web-of-trust on threads as we speak, so hopefully that will fix thread spam on Damus soon.

mar 6mo ago 💬 4

It's a fighting battle the free relays will never win. I had to remove your relay and I stopped seeing spam.

I'm sticking to paid relays. Even a tiny fee of 21 sats like nostr21.com keeps bots away.

https://mar101xy.com/uploader/images/2025/06/02/nostr-spam-relays.webp

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SondreB 6mo ago

Does your paid relays allow me to write a reply to them? If I use The Outbox Model will I will be able publish to you?

mar 6mo ago

I'm not sure. I'm not an expert in relays. All I know is my relay is working fine, I can message anyone and there's no spam.

SondreB 6mo ago 💬 1

You have 11 relays defined, one of them is localhost. When I reply to you or send a DM, you expect "me" to publish that to all your 10 public available relays?

There is also an following list with 34 relays that you have published.

Where should I publish my events for your to see them? Randomly pick perhaps 3 of the 10 relays?

mar 6mo ago

I have no idea. I'm not an expert in relays. I just know the biggest relays are full of spam and once I removed them the spam went away.

TheGrinder 6mo ago

localhost is probably the nostr-tray relay