Had our first free sats spammer on nostr.wine.
Pubkey has been terminated. We have a bunch of spam filtering concepts that we are going to try out with our aggregator relay first. If that goes well, we’ll consider adding it to the nostr.wine.
Shoutout to #[0] for the heads up. Good eye.
Saw that guy. What I like about paid relays (especially once things mature to the point where relay operators are full time businesses) is that there's somebody who has a vested interest in keeping the relays spam free. With a free relay you may want to do that but you have a day job to attend to and have no financial incentive so it's easier to let things go, at least for longer. All that to say that I appreciate what you're doing!
Exactly! And thank you as well, your archive data helped us backfill our aggregator. Nostr building community is 🔥
Same could be said for censorship when relays become full time businesses. As a paid relay you will be pressured, and most likely offered money to expand your spam filtering to include "misinformation". It will be interesting to see if paid relays will be able to resist this pressure, and if users will detect this and move on to non censoring relays.
The user's ability to pick and choose relays is where I think this is different from what we saw with social media over the past few years. With a large number of smaller networks catering to their paid user base rather than big corporate advertisers, the incentives are on the side of the users rather than the gov't or big corps like Big Pharma. It will be interesting to see how it plays out, but I certainly think Nostr networks (nostrworks) have a much better chance at resisting censorship.
Love to see it 🍷
