Can you give me an event id of one of these events that shouldnāt be in your feed? Wanna see the payload
PSA šØ- Donāt use Freefrom!
Somehow Iām getting a *ton* of spam about āFreeformā in my main feed, from a ton of nothing accounts that I donāt follow and have no reposts or likes from anyone I follow. Also doesnāt seem to have any hashtags Iāve chosen to follow. So I canāt understand why they would make it to my main feed.
Any idea how they snuck in? Did they manage to trick some relays or something? Iām on nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955 and they seem to be targeting Damus users. But I should only be able to see this in global.
Horrible strategy, imo. If they are legit, theyāve made me think itās fucking spam trying to steal peopleās nsec. Scammy advertising is a huge red flag š©
If theyāre dumb enough to do that shit, donāt dare paste anything sensitive into that app until you know more about it.
Discussion
Hereās a random selection:
nostr:note1g06tvgzy03n439229489s5ke67f7hxkkl7yaytjh4ahf36w0nkfstxxmeu
nostr:note1sh3hhnkpznvdcafnea9w30cyzu5qmyjgkasu9gp4a8jyth4kyajq98253e
nostr:note1csecv4x3h8fhs4wgep0ruchzg2tyhy2z0y9wkyfuj469462yn54q6d4ns4
nostr:note1qewe99rp08666cgr0aksd698jutwy7ld6ddp24lq046mns7vfpcst74dlu
nostr:note1rv5jhflmue9ahsh56fnmgc7fgxaw7nj2vxr2ayud6dz4lqtq77vs7tg6xv
note1thc7pc07xa7gpj250vslpq76zpdhl8su58uhxvh53xunnup8gwvqy7f
Thereās a whole bunch of popular hashtags on these notes if you look at the raw event json for the notes. Spammers often use this technique on Nostr.
Yeah someone else could see them on Amethyst, Iām just on Damus and weāre driving so I couldnāt really do much with it.
so if you follow popular hashtags, this type of spam will leak into your feed unless you mute the spammers or use a client like coracle that has a WoT implementation that helps auto-mute this kind of stuff.
Yeah WoT to hashtag follows could be a solution in Damus here. Maybe we could also display the ātā tags in notes so itās visible to users. cc nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s nostr:npub13v47pg9dxjq96an8jfev9znhm0k7ntwtlh9y335paj9kyjsjpznqzzl3l8
yeah we should be displaying hashtags near the reply line somewhere
something like this? 
Yeah WoT would be a huge help here. I like to follow hashtags though just to get a ātasteā of global and be exposed to new people/stuff on the network. I realize I get some crap that way too, but it just looked as if the post had no tags, so wasnāt certain how it happened.