Disclaimer: I am not recommending that you do this.
Anyone can now easily game any "Trending" feed algorithm on Nostr that uses Zaps as a determinating factor.
Why am I posting this then if I don't want people to do it?
To raise awareness.
To have discussion.
To make Nostr better and more resilient.
It’s a protocol bug. Or maybe a feature? Depends on perspective.
I let it run up to 100m sats.
Can't see it anywhere that I use....
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Primal will be busy hiring a team for censorship to protect their algorithms; they literally do it manually.
There are plenty of better ways to raise awareness, start a discussion, and make Nostr more resilient.
This just causes unnecessary confusion for users and fire drills for other developers.
nostr:npub12262qa4uhw7u8gdwlgmntqtv7aye8vdcmvszkqwgs0zchel6mz7s6cgrkj , you do you, but this sort of thing is disappointing and childish imo.
I agree, Jeff. I always prefer to disclose these types of issues and vulnerabilities privately. That said, Semi's actions let the cat out of the bag and people have already started using it prior to me sharing his note. I wanted to let people know what's going on.
I believe you hat Primal will have all of this fixed in the near future with custom user controls. I'm excited to see what they produce as I think Primal is a great client and is doing great things for Nostr.
I wouldn’t even call this a vulnerability. It’s just a partially finished (known to be naive implementation).
We’re not doing ourselves favors by expecting fully mature software at this stage.
I appreciate the poking and the experimentation but the way it’s done just feels likes it’s in bad faith rather than collaborative or helpful.
The dangers with ranking are at the highest when everyone sees the same ranking. Then, if ranking is manipulable and the feed mainly concentrates on the same 6-7 npubs something is wrong. Unified ranking leads to concentration and ultimately centralisation. Custom rankings kind of solves this. Primal has promised that user will have control, proof is in the pudding once pudding is ready to be served. Curious to taste it.
