I'm more worried about spam in the near term. It will be exceedingly efficient for spammers to generate new keys and even NIP-5s, and deluge us. There's inevitably going to be A LOT of work in relay software and clients to counter that. But it's coming. Because of course there is. There's money to be made.
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Spammers can only spam “general”, feeds are curated by clients not by other users, or relays, or advertisers, or spammers.
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that can be solved, by only showing you messages from people you follow, information that clients already have. If there are replies from strangers it could collapse them/hide them and let you choose to open them.
Yeah. There's many ways to solve it. But they all have trade offs. If you only allow messages from people you follow, it reduces the ability to meet new people. Like, I'm not following you right now (and I'll give you a follow), so under that solution, you and I wouldn't even have had this interaction.
it is possible to make whitelisted relays, and these could be used to aggregate well-known users in the nostr-verse. then you only need to add that one relay (or a relay which syncs with it) to essentially follow all the whitelisted users.
I think there are some efficient filtering methods for this now. I guess we will find out.
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Who’ll be first to retrofit SpamAssassin?