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 why do people use this https://i.nostr.build/BwdD.png  
 Free airdrops duh  
 seriously, that mess of scambots is making that blue bird app unusable 
 If only crypto projects can ditch X and move to better protocols like Nostr, Bluesky, Truth social 
 What client is this? 😅 
 It’s brutal! The last few days have been insane over there. 
 Couldn’t this happen on Nostr too? 
 Good question. I will love to see something like that here on #nostr 
 At least we could fix it 
 What're you thinking as far as potential solutions? 
 You can just fetch thread/dm/notification notes from paid relays if spam gets bad. Could just be a toggle 
 It’s insane lately… 
 I get mostly spam bot replies and likes on X unfortunately. I assumed it was cause I didn’t pay for premium so in addition to being spam targeted I don’t get seen by anyone I reply to… 
 Super-bright mode apps? I've no idea 
 I have 181 followers on Twitter, of which 150 are bots/scammers/impersonators. It's so sad. I only use Twitter because of news outside the Bitcoin sphere. It would be great if there was a way to relay interesting Twitter constant directly on nostr. Probably requires access to Twitter APIs though 
 It's crazy that they don't filter them out.  The syntax is so easy and there must be a ton of people who have reported those.

The ads are also horrible. Bluechecked accounts with the same shitcoin scams with identical messages.

Didn't X mention that they are now going after smaller ad accounts since there's trouble in paradise with the big ones.

This is then the result. Any $$$ is a good coin regardless of the message. 
 My first thought seeing this was "Wow that's a shitty looking nostr client" 
 😂😂 I’m always thinking this 
 this situation may occur when there are more and more damus users? How to fix it? 
 Why will people still use Nostr when the same reply bots move over here?  There's nothing unique about Nostr that prevents this type of SPAM, it's just not here yet.  It's likely even cheaper to do here as generating new nsecs are effectively free. 
 Hugely annoying