A spontaneous thought. Wonder if a WoT could help mitigate the problem. Likes and positive comment by accounts that are themselves established would act as a vouch. New accounts with zero trust would need to complete a captcha to post.

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We could take some examples from the pgp keyservers, this seems headed in that direction.

I think it would work, but you have to implement on relays. Clients just don't have that much info.

Paid relays would also discourage spam and help incentivise the relays