Yes, I talked about the client perspective but the relay part is also really important, of course. As you say, at relay side things are harder since they don't have direct access to the social graph.

The usual proposals here seem to point to PoW, a payment or an invitation, to unlock access. But I fear that all these approaches could create a lot of friction and slow down onboarding.

Even network filtering does not seem very effective, when you have disposable key pairs and VPNs.

I would avoid to delegate to AI this job, this would really escalate to an AI vs AI fight.

Do you have any other ideas?

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I think it’s going to be a challenge. I am actually fairly bullish on the network filtering side as part of the solution but unfortunately can’t use it for our aggregator. There are ways to circumvent it but it is easier to fingerprint connections than you might think, even with multiple IPs/ASNs.

I think relays will use social graphs based tools a lot but I’m not sure how to deal with new users. They will end up being very hard to discover if we apply strict rate limits/reduce their visibility until they gain followers/engagement.

We could encourage them to pay to “skip the early reputation line” but I don’t think PoW will prevent spammers. There needs to be a way to onboard without cost though. Perhaps some type of vouching from existing “reputable” users. Still can be gamed though. Lots to consider.

Invites, paid, to relays and suggested follow lists? This is more on the client though.