This will lead to a more robust and resilient Nostr.  

  Ti's temporary.   

 I blocked Damus relay. I am now on paid and WoT relays only. 

They are gone. 

 My account is basically unusable. 

 Why? Too many spam notifications? 

 I cant read.l anything all replies and notifications is just spam. 

 Do you have the WoT filter on ? 

 Im now in a cozy little bubble of 2 paid relays and a WoT relay. 

Spam is gone. 

 We have WoT filtering on client

nostr:nevent1qqstq63xj3fsa4ks8g9gy5flhuu6ue706rk6a9g0el9jleexn6dgt0qpzemhxue69uhkzarvv9ejumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgqgdwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkcqgmwaehxw309ahx7um5wgh8qmmjw3jk6mmwv4ex7tnrdaksz9rhwden5te0dehhxarj9ehhsarj9ejx2as9j6dpf

No wot relay needed 

 Im using this too. 

 Hmm. Something like this would be nice to have in Amethyst 🥹 

 i wish the desktop clients were as good as the mobile ones :( We wouldn't even need WoT relays if we could filter spam on the clients. (and AFAIK, that's the spirit of nostr, everyone is free to see or hide the spam as they see fit) 

 @TKay do you have friends filter on?

nostr:note1sq3e28dndtqnxtauqg3vpdjzeh0x6lyyrlu22aqq779tc7f34yzq8sj4ax 

 Still in the notes and reply feed. Like at least 50 notes. 

 Hmm do you follow lots of hashtags?  You shouldn’t be seeing spam in notes & replies unless they are spamming hashtags. We don’t apple friend filter to hashtags yet, but we definitely should 

 No, not hashtags. Maybe i though it was in the notes. Its gone now. So im good. 

 Have you tweaked your relays? 

 I just woken up, I honestly thought this said #twerk. hahahahahahahaha  

 You can twerk in front of your relays. There are no rules against it. 

 hahahahahahahahaha 

 @seth you know what to do https://www.spam.com/recipes 

 Nom nom nom. 

 I know what I’m doing in the middle of the night from now on https://i.nostr.build/XD0ZdhyADRLMZg6f.jpg  

 My spam is boring. I just fry it and slap it between some bread. 

Honestly I may need to go buy some and eat some tomorrow. It's been a while. 

 Try out one of those recipes from the 100 list n post results 🔥👀 

 I actually love spam 😂 the food. 

 Oh yum! 😝 

 gossip has a nice feature where you mark relays as spam safe and only use those for notifications.  just sayin', very useful feature imo.

the spam battle, dont give up so ez!  many relays already filter using sats, wot or traditional firefighting, just need more client settings to meet them halfway. 🔥

i sound like a broken record at this point, but i feel a duty to point out the obvious 🙏 

 So, only shows notifications from a subset of relays? 🤔  

 yes 

 Let's go! 👀👀👀 

 nostr:nevent1qqsw38rhlxlm48xx9rzvf7m3zhelwzn3k7etvqc6xyhm0sahry54fnspr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmp0qgsyvrp9u6p0mfur9dfdru3d853tx9mdjuhkphxuxgfwmryja7zsvhqrqsqqqqqp87ppvd 

 Its only 9 days .. the battle must go on for 18 !  

 That is entirely possible. I would guess most new users won't stick around if all they see is spam. 

 Be interesting to see if any of the nostr stats show a slow down because the deteriorated experience because all the spam. I wish we knew who it is behind it. I guess we are big enough to care about now. 

 It could because of a multitude of reasons, but my feed has been slower over the last few days and I'm getting less engagement on my notes. Maybe it's because I tweaked my relays, maybe everyone is busy and using Nostr less like I have been recently, or maybe it's spammers turning people off, or something else.

 

 WOT is bad, if you run strfry, I will help you and yourr rely be spam free. I have done it 

 On top of choosing my relays, which should stop spam, something I can configure like wot is great. Unfortunately I see much spam coming from filter.nostr.wine which was paid and doing good until today. :(

I think the concept of WOT is great but can't just stop at follows. One should be able to choose the WOT points that users must have, but also choose how many layers (follows of follows of follows) aggregate that score. WOT isn't the one solution but it's needed. and needs to be more configurable. 

 Yes, relays should fight spam better. However, WOT is a failure and ruins the experience. Every other decentralized alternative don't have these problems. Only Nostr because of their bad design decisions. They never cared about the relay. Wot is a poorly designed bandaid to cover up bad relay design decisions. Nostr can't even fight CSAM  

 Your right it does hurt discovery. I just like when I can control it. I limited everything to like 2 relays, then stopped seeing things in certain clients, added a couple back. Choosing relays still confuses me I suppose. 

 Yeah, it could be a multitude of things like you said. I have also noticed a slowdown lately; hopefully, it's not the spam attack working. We'll probably get a clearer picture in a couple of weeks. 

 I definitely think people care