Oddbean new post about login | logout we don’t want spam. relays should be able to act as they please. but devil’s advocate - censorship (in any form) is censorship. i haven’t picked a side yet.
So you would be willing to have your feed spammed all day with random messages just to have “ censorship resistance”? Censoring activity that is trying to disrupt the network activity is not censorship. You are not censoring a legitimate actor in the network. Should we allow 0 fee bitcoin transactions in every block, do you consider that censorship that we don’t allow it? People who think censoring spam is censorship in the reasonable definition of what people mean are wrong.
it depends on how you define spam and network disruption. if replyguy went around zapping everyone instead, would you call that disruptive? relays should implement the tools to minimize network disruption as they see fit. i love the point about fees, it’s a great tool to mitigate bad actors. if purple had a spam free relay, i’d use it! we’re all accustomed to paying for convenience. but it’s not my place to decide “who” or “what” gets a voice.