bummer. ‘Twas useful. 
spammers ruin good things 

 I suspect most spammers are government agencies trying to take down a system they can't control, or activists groups, or ... of course ... scammers trying to get money out of people. 

 Let's be real chief: scammers are 99% of spam bullshit everywhere, not just Nostr. 😂 

 bye. 

 I see you're real open minded. 🤣 

 Hashtags were ruined from the start. It just took a bit of spam for the rest of you to see it. 

 How were they abusing it? 

 by spamming unmutable notes with lots of hashtags 

https://cdn.jb55.com/s/3b7b06ca5d870711.png 

 Yuck 

 nostr:nprofile1qqsfnz2sqsflkatdssmeztxr90s8xrd7r07xkhfwaa6eu9zkcguljpgppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kytcpzamhxue69uhkummnw3ezuendwsh8w6t69e3xj7srn6f7x nostr:nprofile1qqsglv2qkn5dmmuhee9cy8fywfu2rfp4xd3xy0myqg2gfvmjl9yqqrqprpmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0d4hhxarj9ecxjmntqyxhwumn8ghj77tpvf6jumt9qyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnswf5k6ctv9ehx2aqn09umv can we get the image axed 

 Blocked as spam 🐶🐾🫡 

 I don't really follow any hashtags for this reason, I have been following #introductions to try and welcome people but a lot are just spam/bots now. Sad.  

 we literally mentioned this  while back. . it was once a feature on snort [adding hashtags that would not appear on the note content] . glad to see the spam is caught in the net Will .  :) 

 Google spent trillions to get along with this content spam... 

 I have noticed this the last couple days. 

It’s sad users resort to spamming chaos to stir the pot and disturb this community. 

Thank you for the info and support to make this project a better place for all. 

 LMAO 

 another option, show hashtags only from paid relays, spammers hate paying.. 

 That would greatly limit notes from new people though, which I find the most interesting thing about hashtag follows, finding new people. 

 These could be two different options though, don’t see why not 

 I was considering the idea of "funded hashtags" that can be paid, with for example 1-10 sats. This would make it costly to spam such funded hashtags.

The funded hashtags would be a separate system vs regular hashtags.

The funding amount could go to the relays that transmit the funded hashtags.

This would not be a perfect system and spam would still happen, but it might be worth a thought.
 

 Any idea who the spammers are?  Im developing tools to identify them (antizaps) right now. 

 Relays should reject events with too many tags. 

 Spammer problem was to be expected … 

 Tags need to be AI generated based on the actual content so it can’t be manipulated. 

 Nobody wants to put in the work to make the training set needed for high quality results. Any AI generated hashtags a guarunteed to be trash. 

 how its going

nostr:note1jy3myg3d38e28xyjavdjlme97x4phh3c6qacas69uwqry94mad5s0dlfpr 

 Nostr was never going to survive without solving the "bot hell" problem, which I honestly think proof of work could help solve. 

Nostr protocol should be exchanging user agents and it wouldn't be impossible to require proof of work appropriate for either mobile or desktop clients. Of course, the capability of a desktop client will be absurdly disproportionate to what mobile clients can do. 

 That is exactly why I never use hashtags on any platform ever. Hashtags take on only the worst aspects of regular text search and actual moderated tags.