I am now being filtered by the default “Web of Trust” spam filter that is present in nostr:npub1n0stur7q092gyverzc2wfc00e8egkrdnnqq3alhv7p072u89m5es5mk6h0 — by far the best client UX, and the one I would prefer to continue onboarding new users with. It’s also in other clients. nostr:npub1n0sturny6w9zn2wwexju3m6asu7zh7jnv2jt2kx6tlmfhs7thq0qnflahe is the maintainer. I imagine I cannot report this to him because he has the spam filter on, as it is the default behavior in the client he publishes. But users DM me, I accept the DM request and reply — they cannot see my DM replies until they turn Web of Trust off. This behavior has been replicated. I have been falsely marked as a source of spam — I am not. I post very infrequently, and never commercial content.

There’s no easy way to verify that someone is being filtered by Web of Trust, and one would think that following someone’s content on Nostr would at least override the default Web of Trust filtering.

Can people please reach out to him and ask how I may resolve this? How can Web of Trust reject false reports of spam? And people should at least know that WoT is filtering them without being made to discover via a channel external to Nostr that their DMs are being secretly and silently filtered. There has to be some kind of notification and appeals system. Please help.

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Just filter weev as porn spam. The old tricks work in every new context

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just a quick question, are you actually getting my DMs? If not make sure your client also does not use Web of Trust lol

Hi nostr:npub1weev88wc43slz6jjlq2h30ltmd0ccu9utfe8wet2kkax0w6epavqw409xg, the Web of Trust filter in Nostur is not used to report spam, it is used to find out what is likely not spam, and it is different for every user because it is based on who they follow. If they follow you, or someone they follow follows you, you would not be filtered out. People not seeing your DM replies after they messaged you first might be a bug, I'll check that.

Cool. Both of these users were new accounts and following only me. They saw notifications for all the DMs I was replying to them with, but when they checked the DM box it was empty. After a couple hours they turned off Web of Trust and all the messages I sent showed up.

the solution is to have millions of webs of trust. and to be highly skeptical of any client that has a single, unchangeable default. (unless it is a very specific and personalized client).

That's not a Web of Trust model, that's a censorship engine masquerading as a spam filter, and branded as a history of key signing parties.

I'm not really familiar with travelling roads labeled as safe ones, but those who do will naturally gravitate to hugboxes. And something in 2025 called Web of Trust stinks of a road with a giant "Safe Road, Enter Here" sign on it.

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