Yikes, the fact that an idiot like me can do this makes me worried about potential attacks that could happen to Nostr, I would never do anything malicious but some would.
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Suuuuuuper easy to spin up millions of npubs and go wild. It'll definitely happen sooner rather than later.
Nostr isn't Sybil resistant in any way. I think this is a feature, not a bug, though. Sybil should be fixed with trust graphs, not in the protocol (this is where Urbit went wrong in my view. Too strong opinions in the network/naming system)
Exactly, all I would have to do to make it attack all of Nostr would be to just switch it from a specific hashtag to any note on a list of relays and everyone would be getting spammed, this needs to be stopped somehow 🤣
I agree it's bad but I disagree it needs to be stopped.
Sometimes the cute is worse than the disease. The Internet is - thankfully - a wide open protocol. And now we have shit like captchas and kyc and 2fa and all sorts of junk, but that's an indicator of how free and permissionless the Internet is.
So then people develop Nostr-auth and better proof of human and trust graphs and whatnot and we get to keep the openness where it belongs (at the bottom) while being forced to build good opt-in protections further up the stack.
One day the "base level Nostr" will be a wild hellscape of bots, scams and impersonations. Like the seedy ground level of a far future city. And we'll spend most of our time on the "upper levels" of high-trust societies, voluntary enclaves and slick open source software solutions to falseness.
...But if someone wants to take a trip into the sewer to do some shady dealing, business is open!
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The cure* not "cute"