That gate for DDos are open on purpose. Attacking an open gate by design is illogical. Devs put it there in the first place.
Will wait for the next plan on how to policy relay. That should be fun.
Brillant plan they have
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putting gatekeepers at the relay isn't the solution. it's a quick fix for a protocol design decision that will lead to centralization if it is not mitigated by posting nostr events to public decentralized storage backends.
we are talking about future events here ?
They will definitively be policy on relays in a "free and open source way" i mean by that, from the start they want to policy relays or to find a way to regulate notes.
So they shock people for them to respond = attack relays in this case. People forget about past events and move to the next.
Guess what the next event its "policy all" with no encryptions if possible.
Relays need spam preventions, and there are a ton of those techn out here to do so. But in fredom tech its all about nip and everyone do the same.
Maybe you can prevent spam with filters. But look at how well that works for protocols like Email or Twitter. Writing to Arweave would imply the same spam filter as Bitcoin uses: feel free to spam as long as you pay fees to miners for it.
Also everyone who uses nostr effectively creates a filter through which he views the global database by only pulling posts from people they follow. That’s pretty effective because it’s a web of trust and people are rewarded to interact with content, knowing to produce value for others.
But the real issue for centralization is that in an ideal world everyone would use the same nostr relay and be connected with everyone else.
Smaller relays only incur costs for their operators and they can’t build brands to monetize their services. I think.