Is your client ready for 1000,000,000 bots?
⚡️🤖 WATCH - AI controlled Bot Farm.
100s of them tossing 1000s of comments and postings designed to agitate you. Polarize you. Offend you.
Disempowering you.
We are relatively spared on Nostr for the moment, but this is clearly observable on X or Facebook.
Why do the platforms allow this? Because it pads their numbers? Who pays for these? #asknostr
https://blossom.primal.net/26f0aa12161967bc9ed29bfb7e2872152a556e31b56ea3bd00373c91e8fe3e43.mp4
Discussion
When bots go rampant it's basically spam and should be filtered mostly on the relay level, so clients can deal with Reputation level stuff:
- This person is not in my trust network, let me see some additional broader info so I can decide if I want to talk to him or not
- This person is in my trust network but I want to see his track record in the context of our current potential relationship, to be able to make an informed decision
Both of these use-cases assume there has been some base-level filtering applied on relays, so at least 90% of what a client downloads could be relevant to the user. It could be that 50% of that downloaded content is not displayed initially, only if user wants to explore stuff outside the trust network.
I agree with this take. Basic filtering should be done at the relay level, and on top of that at the client level.
client? do you mean relay? The free relays are already full of spam. We should all support paid relays instead.
nostr.land very much is