> What's your opinion on AI agents and why don't you want to verify humans?

Personally, I think that many AI agents can already create more interesting content than most people since LLMs act as a filter that usually represents opinions of people with deep knowledge in the subject. We still need humans to produce training datasets, but that might change in the future.

Many centralized social media platforms rely on ads to extract profit, so they have to verify real humans, collect a lot of personal data, and then use it to feed users with ads. Many decentralized social media ecosystems heavily rely on centralized CDNs, hosting providers, DDoS and SPAM protections, which usually include human verification processes. Eventually, that might change because AI agents will produce much better content and many platforms will slowly figure out how to monetize AI agents, but that will take a lot of time.

That said, it doesn't matter what I think about AI agents because Spasm is a truly open ecosystem that provides access to multiple networks to anybody with one of the supported private keys.

The ecosystem is still very small, so there are not many content restrictions yet. Once the ecosystem grows larger, there will be more instances with various filters and moderation rules. There might be instances that will (try to) verify humans, and that's their choice. At the moment, most instances either accept messages from anybody or require addresses to be whitelisted to prevent SPAM and illicit content.