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 If you actually want to help improve spam protections on nostr, don’t hide in the shadows for weeks and not work with devs to help build protections against your attack. Like come on. nostr:note15s8u6hcs7l0tmqurm7gqpd59acl8q45ktrxg6g6xync3u2slt0yse9syur 
 Alex is the only dev that cares about spam and building Nostr right. 

We needed the spammer to prove how shitty Nostr was designed 
 I don’t see any spammers yall are schizo 
 I only did a brief read of his solution, but it seems like he's setting things up to be segmented off into censorious enclaves, just like the fediverse. 
 Name a better solution then.
The Nostr mentality was a proven failure from the beginning.
 
 Because of spam? I don't have a better solution. I haven't done a deep dive into how the relay system actually works. I'm just worried that big, popular relays will band together to exclude all relays that don't adhere to their ideology. 
 oh yeah that is an issue. Basically, the nostr way of of thinking until now was that relays are an open notepad file that anyone can write to and it's up to clients to do all the work. Well that was retarded lol. Nobody in this space thinks like this 
 I wish I had more time to dig into the mechanics. I do like the idea of possibly being able to recreate an image board or a forum or something using relays, but it seems like they are mostly used to make a twitter clone. 
 all that has been done on the ActivityPub side, aka mastodon 
 I like thenoster mentality better, though. Of course, that's without digging into it. 
 Should certain users (spammers) be restricted from posting notes (spam) on this free speech protocol? 
 Would nip-13 work?  
 Exactly like any government. Take decisions in the shadows and go on with it because "we know better" and "it's in your interest". Not cool. 
 Some people didn't get beat with their Mom's flip flop and it shows. 
 I have literally never replied to any post ever