If an npub has no follower from within my ‘n’ degrees of followers, why am I ever seeing it in my Nostr client?

Is this just a compute problem? If so, let’s start running DVMs to solve this.

Does such a simple solution not work?

Let’s say you are brand new to Nostr. For you to get connected, you’d need to:

1. post a few high quality notes (anything that’s not spam)
2. follow people you like
3. wait for one npub who has followers to follow you.

As soon as 3 happens, you’re good to go. If a spam account gets past this part, you just need a few people to report them and then your client shows you that should be skeptical of this person.

The question then becomes, how do you find new people to follow when there is a flood of potential fake profiles waiting to be discovered alongside new real people? 

Best case solution, you meet anyone in real life who has a Nostr account and they follow you.

Worse alternative is bootstrapping from legacy social media.

There will probably be markets in the future selling you access to Nostr networks (pay me to follow you and add you into my WoT). You could be anonymous this way.

Maybe AI search tools will be able to pick out some authentic profiles just by the content they post.

Moral of the story is - the incorrect solution here is to KYC or scan eyeballs for “proof of human”.
 

 Please. I can't use nostr anymore. 

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 What is the end result that bothers you from the spam? 

Is it that you can’t read threads because so much junk? 

Is it the notifications blowing up your phone?

Something else? 

 Account being spam are always high profile account

An ecash stamp in order to reply to such account does not sound too dumb to me

The ecash could go to the account you reply to and this account might choose to send you the ecash back or not