Spam is actually a very easy problem, people just don’t have the balls to charge money to post.
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It's definitely the nuclear option. We can eliminate spam, but at what cost to adoption?
Free relays will still get mass adoption. And they will have spam. Even twitter cant solve the spam problem. You get what you pay for.
The real solution is AI. Make people subscribe to someone's (AI assisted) mute list. Spam problem solved.
For communities, besides the AI mutelist, and besides spam, admins should be able to tell the clients what specific messages should be minimized/hidden; think of it as a temporary per-post mutelist.
Doesn’t necessarily solve tho. Look at the ordinal craze. People will pay to spam. Even if they only scam one person every 100 posts it’s worth it to them. 🤷♂️