Coracle uses WoT to hide sybils. PoW could help in the short term but it'll never be more than a partial solution without on-demand ASIC access
https://m.primal.net/HPlD.mp4Getting bombarded with what looks like a SPAM attack of fake followers. Anyone else seeing this? What's the best way to limit something like this?
Curious if (because the protocol is completely open) a small POW (aka hashcash) be a viable deterrent for brand new accounts and maybe the first 10 posts or something. This could make it easier to allow all new accounts without prejudice, and very little friction for the user, while preventing someone from just coming in and mass creating 1,000s of accounts and posting mountains of spam. (could even make them bitcoin block hashes that are handed to the primary relay, maybe one day after years of this some relay wins a totally random block reward 🤣)
For any accounts that make it past the initial "POW zone" and still end up spamming relentlessly, could just be managed on a per occurrence basis. I suspect a simple barrier like this would likely prevent the overwhelming majority of the problem. 🤔🤔
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This sounds relevant to my question nostr:note1xy2y8f80xvk025c9em7f3cs0ysusw3r0eua2pm6d0dheapcfcemq60pz3s
Hodl, what do you mean by only a partial solution?
That’s low time preference for ya.
Funny how they complain as soon as the content doesn’t favor random killings and fake social engineering.
There will always be an incentive for Sybil attacks, spam is just the lowest rung on the ladder. More sophisticated attacks, for example by bootstrapping a sybil in-group via social engineering in order to effectively hijack identity or phish people will be worth the cost of PoW since they might be able to manipulate public information or gain access to trusted information.