Wait there are paid relays? I clearly need to learn more about relays. I too would like to only be talking to human beings. Although some philosophy bots are thought provoking.

Copying and pasting from a previous post of mine:

It would be really good to have a project where new users can actually meet with an existing nostr user in their area to prove they're human and get into a "web of humans" where it's easier to get traction.

The project could have a main npub that follows a list of trusted users to repost/introduce every new verified human, until growth gets too fast to keep up with. Maybe it could be automated and never fail to keep up.

On a future version of nostr, the "web of humans" would be based on web-of-trust profile tags, and the main npub reposting newly verified users would become outdated. This tag-based "web of humans" has little to do with this project, it should happen eventually whether or not a project like this ever does.

Basically we really need standardized profile tags like "I have met with this npub face to face at Unix timestamp xyz"

Some users follow npubs that are bots, unfollowing these users helps in WoT partially