The solution to the spam problem was "web of trust"
So..... They handle things the most retarded way
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Having the barrier to entry for creating infinite NOSTR profiles be literally an Internet connection and nothing else means there's no good solution. A Web of Trust is not great but neither are any of the alternatives.
No authentication requirement is retarded from the start, so anything NOSTR builds will have to work around this retarded flaw in the architecture.
Nip05 should be the way
Not really good enough either.
I know people hate that mainstream websites require a phone number but honestly it's not a bad standard. You can get them anonymously, it's just not the norm. That would also keep minors away.
That won't be good enough on its own either. Twitter requires phone numbers for most regions and still have a spam problem, but it's at least a fencepost.
One of the good parts about Fedi is that moderation is so localized that it's pretty rare for a mass spam attack to happen, and it's easy to cauterize when it does happen.
Why is nip05 not ok?
No doxxing info needed
Can be anon
Because you can just buy a few domains and create infinite accounts for $10 instead of for free. Doesn't fix anything.
Yes it does because you can block them at the relay level by an entire domain then if they spam.
Then they spend $3.99 on another domain and are back in 5 minutes 🤣
That can happen on the Fediverse or anywhere too.
You can block them in 1 minute or less.
There's a qualitative difference between NIP 05 verification and a Fedi server, for multiple reasons. NOSTR relays will accept new content more or less indiscriminately, for one. A Fedi server won't even know a new account exists unless there's already a connection.
That's not how any work.
If Nostr does nip05 only, like Ditto, any non-nip05 account won't write any activity.
On Fedi, you can add a Relay or friend, post something, and federate
