If spam is a problem, you can always take measures into your own hands and activate WoT relays, using them near exclusively.

For example: If I follow you or one of the profiles that I follow, follows you, you can use my WoT relay at wss://nostrelites.org. It's a large WoT, but should have next to zero spam.

Many other WoT relays exist. Here's a short list of some of them:

wss://wot.utxo.one

wss://nostrelites.org

wss://wot.nostr.party

wss://wot.sovbit.host

wss://wot.girino.org

wss://relay.lnau.net

wss://wot.siamstr.com

wss://relay.lexingtonbitcoin.org

wss://wot.azzamo.net

wss://wot.swarmstr.com

wss://zap.watch

wss://satsage.xyz

wss://wons.calva.dev

wss://wot.zacoos.com

wss://wot.shaving.kiwi

wss://wot.tealeaf.dev

wss://wot.nostr.net

wss://relay.goodmorningbitcoin.com

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Thank you! Added your relay.

You're welcome.

I’m not sure if I qualify for for the relay since I’m relatively new, but I’ll try this relay. Thanks!

Question, if this relay works for me, would I best served to remove the other ones to stay spam free?

To reduce spam it's best to use a combination of paid and WoT relays. For paid, I recommend nostr.wine and for WoT, any of the ones listed above that the owner or one of their followers follows you.

Thanks! Yup, I’ve got nostr.wine — is nos.lol any good? I think it’s one of the default ones I inherited from primal. The name TLD makes me wonder

Looks like I didn’t pass. I’ll keep working on being trustworthy.

Just add the baked beans relay

Navy beans, navy beans, navy beans.

But only when we use these WOT relays only, right?

Manage your relays wisely!

For the best Nostr experience, we recommend using a mix of paid relays & WOT relays to keep your feed fast, reliable, and spam-free. 🚀

Optimize your setup today! ⚡

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FWIW as a recently new user, I really haven't had that much of an issue with Spam... Dip into the "global" feed every once in a while, it's mostly bots telling me the Bitcoin price and Japanese people talking about their day.

But isn't NIP-13 supposed to solve this? I notice that Coracle allows for proof of work on notes, but Amethyst doesn't...

Hmm, still learning about relays, and I get it conceptually, but I don't really understand it in practice. Like I'm able to connect to your relay on Damus and Iris, but never Primal...is that by design? 🙂

Fwiw it's worth, this is something I had bookmarked, and it got me down the relay rabbit hole. After learning about them a bit more, I'm running my own now :)

Just letting you that when you put up helpful content like this, there are people like me who take note, read it, study it, and do something :)