Is this spam? The URL stays the same but each client gets a different view based on when they download:
https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/jamcams.tfl.gov.uk/00001.08859.mp4
I'm exploring what to use as a good signal for spam in the context of a relay and I'm leaning towards counting follows vs. mutes. Somebody followed by 20 of my follows but muted by 6 maybe merits an explicit mute from me to be treated as spam? Somebody followed by nobody but muted by 2 ... probably is spam?
I'm implementing nostr:naddr1qq9rzd3h8y6nqwf5xyuqygzxljlrqe027xh8sy2xtyjwfzfrxcll8afxh4hh847psjckhkxwf5psgqqqw4rsty50fx and it will soon be available as a relay, without nip42 as I think it's not well supported by clients yet.
nostr:npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z nostr:npub1t0nyg64g5vwprva52wlcmt7fkdr07v5dr7s35raq9g0xgc0k4xcsedjgqv
Discussion
My heuristic only assumes that financial incentives to get people to go to a website are so common that almost all spam does contain a link. My relay currently only filters and throttles those who are not followed by a group of paying users.
A happy by product of #zaps is that I know I'm dealing with someone real compared to the blue bird app when for months I didn't know whether I was posting into the wind. I understand. I could be dealing with bots, but bots that #zap 'the hardest asset in the World' are welcome.