Oddbean new post about login | logout I am concerned the reply guy replies will greatly reduce the usability of nostr… It is getting bad..
1 bot is bringing down the protocol …
How can this not be fixed yet…
Client Devs don’t want to give users the ability to filter on NIP05s. It could be solved with that but apparently blocking whole domains would be worse than all of us getting spammed non-stop.
The spammers would just include nip-05 as part of spam. It's a whackamole
Let them try. Then it’s on NIP05 providers to keep their service clean - not too much to ask for paid service providers. Then they have to fallback to their own domains for NIP05 which is cost and friction they can’t keep up for long before we block them all.
Nahh thats your colleague doing it 🤣 figure it out devs do something
The Morris worm nearly brought down the Internet in 1988: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm
That’s Derek’s intent. To cause a hormetic response. He aims to strengthen Nostr by triggering an improvement in its resilience to spam.
I can't see him anymore. It seems like its mainly on large public relays, specifically primal and offchain.
I might try removing some..
I would remove those two specifically and add some of the relays from the list nostr:nprofile1qqsw9n8heusyq0el9f99tveg7r0rhcu9tznatuekxt764m78ymqu36cpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuat50phjummwv5hszymhwden5te0wahhgtn4w3ux7tn0dejj7qg4waehxw309an8yetwwvh82arcduhx7mn99uuwx66a made.
I transitioned to using only relays from utxo's list (for my general relays) So far, perfect
I thought the reply guy said it would only last for all of September?
It speaks?
Lol no I saw a post from someone claiming they were doing the replay guy stuff… I’ll see if I can find it…
This is nothing compared to what it could be. We should be grateful for the learning opportunity before a real attack happens.
No, it's OK. I'm a complete noob and even I found a way to deal with it.
The ordinals did a great job of getting people on lightning and making us all think about scaling options ahead of when we would need it
That’s the only good I see from this, yes, we will learn to harden
I don't even know what anyone's talking about. I want to be part of the club. or maybe I don't
Same. A few reply guy posts show up for me, but my default relays seem to be filtering most of them (my nostr feeds are certainly not nearing "unusable")
I see reply guys on most all notes and get them on all notes I post, usable but very bad experience.. I’m going to experiment with my relays
Damus relay is infected dude. Delete.
I just deleted it, let’s see
You might need to get rid of nos.lol and Eden as well
Removed them also, let’s see
Good luck! I haven’t been seeing reply guy using my relay set, but I used mostly paid relays and topical relays with access controls, your large amount of free relay usage is probably what’s getting you annoyed. Some free relays are having better luck with maintaining quality, like bevos relay in my list for example
Agreed. Good news is this a good anti-fragility test. Spammers are inevitable if/when nostr grows with more users and content.
it's getting bad? it was only bad for the first day I haven't seen that much spam since then. I removed the primal relay & the little rocket relay and everything is good now. I did see some other spam coming from the damus relay but not much.
