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Tip for nostr apps:

Nostr has a super power, generating an "account" is as simple as generating a private key.

The first time user experience can therefore be **fully automated**!

This is a MASSIVE UX win, we take the initials user journey from 5 clicks for username, password, email etc, and we reduce it to 0 (!!!!) clicks.

User lands on the website, and EVERYTHING JUST WORKS. Initially with a "guest account", but later the user can either add metadata to this new key, log in with an existing nsec or nsecbunker, or add a new nsecbunker setup with another provider.

We can therefore delay the nuances and complexities of account generation to an arbitrary point later in the user journey.
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unknown 1y ago

Yeah, spammers can post spam each time with a different account with no effort

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Max 1y ago

So what?

That has always been a case, spammers will likely use custom scripts that optimize the attack.

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unknown 1y ago

Nostr is basically an open notepad file that anyone can write to. There was a big spam attack today, sometimes even CP is spammed like crazy on Global.

"So what?" you say? That is not an appropriate answer to this problem. Relay admins have no tools or power to stop spam. Nothing is being done either to give admins control over their instances and the ability to fight back because they have your attitude of "that has always been a case"

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Max 1y ago

All good points.

My point is that we shouldn't have to degrade the onboarding UX of a single client to fight the global spam problem.

These are two separate problems and should be addressed with dedicated tools, a solution is more usable, robust and automated relay management tools.