Blocking only works as long as they don't automatically create new spam accounts every 10 seconds 😆
I guess we can bet on this situation to become real sooner or later 🫣
Discussion
I block to get them out of my DMs. For the moment, that stops further unsolicited req for a day or so. That's still easy to deal with. But certainly will get bad if they succeed with their scams more often. Or maybe it's already bad, but I didn't notice yet.
Technically and theoretically we could reduce DM spam by using only paid relays. So the spam accounts would have to pay sats to be allowed to connect to those relays that you use to receive DMs. In Amethyst you can do that already and choose from which relays you want to receive DMs.
But right now you would limit your connectivity, as not all real accounts use the same paid relays as you do... 🤷♂️