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 nostr will be spammed even more. we will have to use web of trust, zaps, and relay access controls to filter spam 
 Or we can just mute assholes and stupid fucking bots, like the swear bot that follows me around... 
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 When do you think it will increase? We already got spam, but so far it was handleable.

I assume, as its popularity grows, the spam will grow. So we might have waves, but I assume, it has to be more popular to attract more spam.

Wdyt? 
 it will definitely grow with popularity. we have ratelimit scripts on the damus relay to stop the bulk of it, but we allow 6 or so note every minute per IP, so spammers can do 6 posts * number of machines they have per minute, which is still a lot. 
 could POW be an option like the had in mind in the early email days... 
 I'm skeptical it could be an actual solution for various reasons 
 Who and why would they spam Nostr? 
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Access will have to work along real world human relationships but that's of course bad for the socially inept. 
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