Oddbean new post about login | logout How are we going to fight spam bots? I already see some automatically posting replies to posts. It will be impossible to out-mute them as they can create infinite new nsecs at no cost.
Web of trust. You could auto-mute anyone who is completely outside your web of trust without any one step connection to accounts you know. And the ability to see it in the list so you can expand, versus completely hiding it could also be based on degrees of separation. ie. More than 6 degrees? Hide completely. 5 degrees or less, leave a “show post” option for muted comments. Leveraging the web of trust is a massively underappreciated tool, imo.
What sorcery is this? 🤔
I think coracle and satlantis are the only clients/tools I know explicitly utilizing this so far. Spam isn’t bad enough for it to be a necessity, but it will be soon, for better or worse.
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I know you read it before, but maybe if you read it again maybe it will click at a deeper level? We can fight back using #peercuration https://github.com/baumbit/peercuration?tab=readme-ov-file#peercuration
Yeah, anyone with more than x hops from you could just be auto muted. Thats a really good idea. Has this been implemented anywhere yet?
Not that I know of, but I’m hoping it catches on. I’m too busy with other things to fight with making my own Nostr client, but it’ll end up on my list of things to fund if others don’t do it first.
We can leverage the web of trust by creating a crowd based decentralized sorting function called #peercuration A bonus it that it will help solve the issue with centralized relays: https://github.com/baumbit/peercuration?tab=readme-ov-file#peercuration