While I donβt have any reason to believe any particular person was responsible for the recent Nostr spam, it would be a sly way to urge users to use apps and services that mitigate it, and those solutions could also be made by the same person creating the spam/problem. Just putting on my conspiracy hat for a few moments.
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Come on. It's so obvious. "Cui prodest?" has worked for 2000 years now, and it rarely fails. Whoever is pushing for:
1. Paid relays
2. Censored relays
is the one directly benefiting and most likely behind this.
Itβs definitely worth being suspicious about
It was fiatjaf. Dude's a trickster.
(I don't *know* this, but I think so)
π― Itβs at least worth considering
I get what you're throwing down. nostr:npub1utx00neqgqln72j22kej3ux7803c2k986henvvha4thuwfkper4s7r50e8 and nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6 made the WoT relay, paid me 100 sats to spin up the relay, just so I could spend $50 a month on a server. It's a long con to make me burn fiat.
The windows playbook in action.
My morning thoughts were similar, more legacy platforms trying to scare new and old users away from nostr by exploiting the censorship-free stance of most devsβ¦ they can use it as an example of the βperksβ of filters that their platforms have, or if devs aggressively filter the spammers, they can claim that nostr isnβt the censorship resistant protocol that we claimβ¦ and the new plebs that still donβt understand protocol vs. platform will believe them
π― Very well could be
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lol. ya think π§ π€
but only honest people develop on nostr