i think the latent frustration behind these "attacks" will become clear in coming weeks
me, nostr:npub12262qa4uhw7u8gdwlgmntqtv7aye8vdcmvszkqwgs0zchel6mz7s6cgrkj and nostr:npub1f0restzwusrck2k62dq2ueelrrfmdfnyk8uhart8n8nqwn94cwwsppm0sa have all been shouting about the culture problem in nostr dev
and yeah, if it had been me doing this, i'd only have spammed replies on threads of the devs, because they are the ones most impervious to the message
i also don't agree with the retarded indiscriminate nature of the spectacle, it could have been a lot more selective, because it drove away a lot of tentative newbies
The "civilian casualties" could have been reduced 😅 Not a single one of my adoptees has stuck around through this.
Ifs, buts, and coconuts & all that... timing is everything. I know how it is to have an idea & want to act on it right away. It's not always the best decision to do so.
well, i'm not apologising for it, i'm just saying that i had been warning about this
what is even more hilarious is the people doing it are doing it to make a dig at the devs, but not being very selective (they should have just been targeting their npubs only, IMO, to disrupt their lives instead of everyone)
anyhow, nostr isn't going away, but a lot of rockstar in group devs have faces covered in egg at this point, and i'm gonna enjoy that for a while
also, it's worth pointing out that with the hemorrhaging of userbase like this all those fancy pants are gonna be extra shamed out of this because they had plenty of time to make the system more resilient
Theduck said he hoped it wasn't too disruptive. I was just offering some input on how to, perhaps, be less so, if that was a truthful statement. That's all.
yeah, it was disruptive, but he says he not replyguy, i only even saw one of this dumb things, didn't seem that big a deal to me, just some nutter
i mean, honestly, the replyguy notes are easy to recognise, all of them have the URL of the relay they were posted to at the end of them...
i think that replyguy actually has highlighted the fact that the majority of nostr client devs don't have basic programming skills like writing regexp
Why is this on the client devs and not relay operators?
Seriously, no client dev should be writing specific spam regex.
outbox model is client side, it's key to decentralization as well
write permission for relays is a separate thing, that's to conserve their resources
for example, and why i currently am not using coracle, it reads from relays in my follows lists, of which many of them include the relays targeted by replyguy, damus and primal being the two i see most often
why should it be reading from relays that aren't in my relay list, of events that are not of my follows, or my follows follows?
the default posture should be conservative for this client behaviour, so this is an example of how client devs need to take part in it
nostrudel is the best for fully implementing outbox model, IMO, though gossip and coracle both are not terrible
regex is too complicated and if not properly done, without following the basic foundation of programming, it can be a disaster: a) audit and continuity b) could open to a can of vulnerability. 🙈😬
if it is true, those clients are f*cked! 😬 or we are f*cked too 🙈 I have been asking if anyone has done red teaming (pentest) on nostr. 🤞🤞🤞Any takers from our anon friendly white hats? ☺️
