Both, I was using a VPN in Colorado at one point. Sorry if things got a little out of hand, and much respect for handling it really well
I have no idea, but might be somebody who wants to highlight which relays are not filtering spam well (hence why it says which relay it came from)
Spam is done now. The extra rate limiting helped but a permanent IP ban would be really nice too. It was all coming from a single EC2 instance (with occasional IP rotation).
It was me, well-played sir. Wasn't ill-intentioned, really just hoping to prod devs to help solve the issue.
Hey nostr, I was the "emoji" spammer and while it probably went overboard my hope was to help incentivize people to help solve the spam problem. That's why it was targetting devs. Hopefully it was not too disruptive to ordinary users.
Anyways, I think the point was made and some good discussions have started so I've gone ahead and shut it down. If anyone is curious I can share the code.
BTW I'm not the "ReplyGuy."
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