Seems like smart spam protection
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not really, the friction of needing sats to use nostr will just hinder nostrs growth or even kill it
Needing sats to use nostr may hinder growth relative to not needing sats, but it also lets us explore a very different design space. What if we coupled digital scarcity with information/communication? Could we explore new frontiers in information quality?
Plenty of reasons to be pessimistic and plenty of reasons to be optimistic… just like with all new technologies.
exploration is great, but killing nostr growth is not a good goal and so real spam solutions are needed
paid relays are a side show distraction and their pushers are mistaken
what kinds of real spam solutions do you find most promising?
iris.to works well
if we can share blocking and follows would be a good start, curated lists are the basis
i agree those seem like good approaches.
tho not mutually exclusive with sats approaches? can use with free relays still
i am open to being wrong, tho i am quite certain i am not, i can vaguely see a model where anyone can earn sats easily and so people post in a valued manner, aka behave themselves because of reward incentives and maybe a low friction way to onboard people is created
nostr needs to consider the friction of other social platforms, i for example wont use twitter or discord or facebook because of the phone number requirement, thats friction
the thing that caught me with nostr was anigma, you load it up and you can chat, there was no friction, say i made some social connections then well i could keep that id and move thru the nostr ecosystem which is now growing way faster
to me nostr is attracting people that get it, they see the problems with social and see solutions and are willing to speak louder than words, speak code
we are hardly ever always right but nostr is evolving in a quite beautiful open way, we are witnessing history