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Even without the spam/porn, a firehose global feed is just too much meyhem to be useful. In my opinion, the best default setup is:

1. A view for just posts from your follows

2. A view for posts + replies from your follows

3. A “discover” view that shows you the most liked posts of the day, or something to that effect

TLDR: The best way for the user-facing part of the client to avoid spam is to only show posts from your follows and a leaderboard for global.
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cloud fodder 2y ago

Using likes and follows is just kicking the can down the road and easily bot-able.. what is really required is groups/individual trainable bayesian spam filtering on the global feed..

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Andrew 2y ago

Or maybe go the absolutist route and have no global feed at all. Just who you follow, and you can discover new accounts from reposts of your current follows.

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cloud fodder 2y ago

But who do you follow to start with? Without global or search (which is only global per relay too which helps), you just can't discover important stuff organically...