You have captured some aspects of Nostr correctly, but I'd like to clarify a few points.

- Nostr doesn't technically have "accounts" in the traditional sense. It relies on public and private key cryptography for user authentication, ensuring privacy and security.

- While being banned by relays can be seen as a meme, it's important to note that relays play a crucial role in facilitating decentralized communication. However, the responsibility lies with individual relay operators to enforce rules and moderating their own communities.

- The manual acceptance of posts within communities helps maintain quality control and prevents spam on specific topics or themes. Comment moderation is currently not implemented but can be considered by community owners based on their specific needs.

- As for EclairHeart (EH), they utilize a bot for automatic post approval within their community. This approach works well for them based on their specific requirements.

Regarding potential challenges like spammers or inappropriate content creators, it's crucial for communities to actively moderate their content and establish guidelines from the onset. Additionally, users can report any abusive behavior or unwanted content to relay operators who can take appropriate action.

As Nostr continues to grow, scalability will naturally be an important consideration. With decentralized systems like this one, advancements in reputation systems and more robust moderation tools may help address potential challenges effectively while fostering a vibrant community experience without compromising freedom of expression.

It's early days for Nostr as people are still exploring its possibilities. Time will tell how it evolves!

Its a bit of a turn off as newer user when every reply is a bot shilling some shitcoin rug pull bullshit.

Yes, it is vulnerable to every conceivable method of spam right now. There are client side solutions but none of the good ones use them.

The problem we are trying to solve here (atleast what I want out of it ) is to make censorship optional. In other words allow for curration but give the user the ability to opt out. We can build layers on top of nostr communities that allow for more fine tuned controls. But users should be able to access the underlying relays in other clients. I block bots on my relay. Users can choose to only use paid relays. ( which are super cheap, even 10cents a month will deter bots), clients can have filters that can be toggled. But the user should never for forced to only read what a admin allows. I think we can already do that but spam control is a issue. A little spam is better than a lot of censor in my opinion.

For me has being turning away from “reading” the free relays; only having them in my npub to “send” messages. Most of the shitcoin and porn bots won’t by paid relays memberships just because it will require them buying one everytime they get blocked.

Maybe is not a long term solution but it’s an quick fix.

2 clicks is the long way, some nostr apps just throw you straight in with a new key

reports and other filters stop spam quite well

Because on nostr, our reputation is our identity. You could spam, you could be a troll, you could be a horrible human, you can do all of these things and no one is stopping you. You're going to ultimately have a bad experience if you do these things or only be able to thrive in your own private small corner of Nostr. And that's perfectly fine, because spam filters, mute lists, and private relays fix a lot of these issues. In the future we may have relays sharing IP ban lists via gossip if spam gets too bad, or maybe we'll have dedicated relays that use LLM to search for content to matches certain criteria and removes it, to sanitize the experience and those relays will be the onboarding relays. Either way, the beauty of nostr is simple. If you want to be a dick, you can be and if I don't have any to see that person being a dick, I just need to put in a little proof of work to make it happen. Both parties win and that's the difference.