Nostr has been a pleasant refuge from the AI slop and astroturfing that has engulfed Twitter.
What will happen if the bot armies invade nostr one day? Are there any defenses?
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Lol they already have. Plenty of floppy dick gifs and other degeneracy. It comes in waves. The beauty is that it isn't free to carry out sustained attacks. And we grow.
Web of Trust & Proof of Work are both incredibly effective, especially if combined.
This note has a ~10 ms proof of work attached to it. I could even bump that up to 1 second if I wanted without any real problem to usability.... but for a Bot to have any reach, it has to spam millions of notes, and that computation becomes expensive (at some point).