Oddbean new post about login | logout OK, who is this Reply Guy I keep hearing about?
Shhhh. Don't wake him.
Either Elon Musk or some nerd in his mom's basement
Not sure, but I’d love a chance to share my story with you on your podcast, I have already done one with Kerry from healing humanity, Dr. Shawn Baker, @Ben Wehrman and just did one with Dr. Chaffee. Let’s chat please Sir!
ReplyGuy is a spam bot designed to repost content it finds on Nostr. It's a spam attack that several Nostr user were trying to quell with no success thus far (though one of the forks of NoStrudel along with a Nostr relay is mostly spam free).
A bot affecting certain relays or clients. It’s merely an automatic reply. Zooming out it’s also a curveball for the devs to solve and will in due time. We’ve seen a few instances like this come and go.
heres a work around on Amethyst... https://primal.net/e/note15su9a5mvp3huzqz60xc353qgt2e2kxtlwglwejh2qcjpfrm7tesqv4z0nx
A cute little frog that replies to every post and uses a new Npub and a lot of the free relays https://image.nostr.build/507d0a7f4a48972752028b6d1e9fc30e871f325da344fd0dda514f8008662196.jpg
I imagined reply guy as some sort of bot spying on everyone's messages, by replying and recording everything, big brother in the nostr sky.
very annoying spam reply bots, if you use Amethyst you can add ReplyGuy to Security Filters > Hidden Words to auto block all accounts with this name
Brilliant. Thank you.
It also blocks any post with those words in the content. I had to unblock to find and reply to your post...
It’s a bot that replies to almost all posts with a relay name I guess and just spams your notifications page. You’re probably using @primal like me and that’s why you’re seeing this guy no more. On Damus I still see him. Or maybe it’s a matter of relays. So I’m not sure what the antidote is.
