Doesn't spam control should be done by relay owners only?
Ok. Who wrote the bot experimenting with spmming / trolling bluesky via gateways on May 11th?
https://conspirator0.substack.com/p/federation-and-political-spam
This shows that when we run Nostr services we need to think about spam controls. Kudos to nostr:npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 for having those on mostr.pub.
The TechCrunch coverage and headline implies it was all of Nostr doing it, which we know to be patently false. At the same time it paints Nostr in a bad light. As these new protocols grow and more money shows up, like the $150 million just raised by farcaster, we’ll see more of this stuff.
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Maybe as personal algorithms where it looks back at repeated messages and automatically ignores those messages or even blocks them. Or eventually, we take control of our own throttle of what we consider spam and program our feeds so that it "listens" to others who are willing to speak in intelligent manners, based on previous messages and/or rating online by others. Almost like a reputation network could start to developing out of Nostr.