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More spam solutions will be coming to nostr too. Here are a few:

paid relays - if you only read from paid relays, and they work at removing spam somehow.

filter scripts - if you can think of a way to characterize notes you don't want (e.g. says "AirDrop") scripts in clients can drop these notes. Gossip is close to having this.

PoW - IMHO not a good solution as spammers can PoW just like everybody else can.

social distance - If the person is not followed by someone you follow, don't show those notes

classifying people into more buckets - if clients allow users to mark a person as "recognized but not followed", then this can grow their social graph by a lot, and the social distance algorithm won't prune out quite so many people. I intend with gossip to have a thumbs-up/thumbs-down button on people you don't follow so you can "recognize" that they are a regular person not a spambot, without following them.

david 2y ago

What about muting any user who is nip-51 muted by your follows? (Or maybe needs to be muted by 2 or more follows, or some percentage of your follows). Seems like a lot of bots would disappear pretty quickly that way.

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Mike Dilger ☑️ 2y ago

Good idea. But yeah, I would want two or three follows muting first.

david 2y ago

Maybe let users view the curated mute list the way the relays list is viewed below, and then select the threshold number of mutings before you auto mute. Would be interesting to see how many profiles get muted by lots of follows vs muted by just one or two.

Maybe also include follows’ follows.