Right, it's like, you sign up for this new social media thing, and you gotta figure out how to buy some Bitcoin and fork it over to these relays to get good content???
I don't think so! That's not friendly at all!
My relay blocks non-NIP-05 but that's it.
I think spam filters are going to work better at the client level, customized to each users preference.
i haven't configured NIP-05 yet. i should probably get that sorted out.
Half the clients will do it for you, or you can use your own webserver. Either way it's pretty easy.
i've been thinking about two things when it comes to relays and spam filters.
1. configure a relay proxy so my clients only have to talk to a single relay.
2. maybe patch that proxy so it runs posts through a machine learning email spam filter such as bogofilter
(you can train bogofilter on anything, not just emails, if you do it right)
There's some cheap paid relays like nostr.wine that are working pretty hard on spam censorship that you can get on. As long as you're connected to any public free relays you're going to see what those have, which is a certain amount of spam. Certain clients filter out spam by not showing you content that is more than N followers away from your npub. Iris is one of those. You can adjust the filter or turn it off. Things I want to implement on my relay in the near future are rate limiting by npub and removal/blocking of duplicate entries into the DB.
yeah, i know iris.to does it, but Damus has nothing for spam filtering, so it has a far dirtier global feed unless i disable most of the free relays, which is inconvenient. so i was thinking to use this relay proxy i found on GitHub, which talks to multiple relays for you, and stick a spam filter in that.
Interesting idea.
Iris is out on the Apple app store BTW but I don't know how well it runs, I'm an Android guy.
At least Damus has a global feed, Amethyst doesn't even fuck with one.
I still think Iris has the best global feed because you can filter it based on followers of followers and so on.
Damn, I have more Nostr clients on my phone now than I sever had different social media apps
didn't know Iris even had a mobile app, they don't advertise that very heavily on their site, do they
They have a mobile app but it doesn't work very well on most devices.
i'm testing it out. one thing i'm noticing with iris.to is that i often have to refresh the browser to get the timeline to update. not sure why.
I just got the iris app working on my phone. Realized why it wouldn't load my nsec before. Yeah with the browser web app you have to refresh it sometimes. The bigger the storage gets the slower it gets.
There're a multiple updates even daily so it's good to flush the cache. Work-in-progress to improve the feed, local storage etc . optimizations.
specific instructions on how to do that in Chrome Inspector without wiping things out would be appreciated.
"Clear data" Just be prepared to sign-in again and if it does not sign out it might be a good idea to do that as well.
You could also do a cmd/ctrl + R hard refresh when on Iris site but the clear data deletes the current cache.
thank you. that's more extensive than i just did, i.e. remove just the caches. did as instructed now though.
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Amethyst global feed right here, yo.
