That's why I want such tokens to not only pay for the user himself but also his follows.
Discussion
while this does allow more flexibility, doesn't really help new users who no one follows imo. and new users who no one follows are the ones we need to have a smooth experience moving to nostr.
I don't mind having it be invite-only. They really need just one follow.
As we don't really have a spam problem yet, you're happy about every new user but that will change quickly and requiring new users to do a week of POW to beat the 3s ASIC of the spammers won't solve this.
personally hate the idea of it being invite-only
I agree with your point about spammers using asics. though I do think this will only be a profitable attack once nostr has sizable user base, even then its not a low cost spam attack
still thing pow is worth trying, at least for now
distributed moderation will handle spam well because you can expand the moderation effort over many users