What does this mean for actually users of Nostr?
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Well in this case they don’t seem to be DMing random people, however around 4K by memory were sent to a different pubkey.
For normal users, nothing except this stuff clogs relays and makes your experience worse performance wise mostly.
So basically in order to unclog and make a users expirience optimal would it be wise to run our own nostr nodes?
Depends. Most the the job of a relay today isn’t querying your own events, it’s events of people you follow and conversations that stem from that. I’d suggest trying a paid relay before running your own.
Nostr.wine is decent.
And the key issue isn’t just one guys 250,000 self DMs, it’s 1,000 or 10,000 of people who do the same. And when we grow again by 10x or 100x. It hurts smaller relays the most.
A personal server can make sense as a local backup. It doesn’t need to be public.