Oddbean

Its okey. Don't use #Nostr then. Go back to Twitter and pray Elon doesn't ban/shadowban you. Have fun getting your DMs bombarded with crypto scams, have fun getting crypto scam ads non-stop on your feed, have fun having scammers commenting on all your posts, have fun wasting money for a blue checkmark, have fun having your phone number attached to your account. You may have more likes/comments/views on Twitter, but remember – its mostly bots.

To be fair, all this applies to Nostr. IP instead of phone number, no blue check but you pay for relays and pray they be around for a while and don't ban you which they could, Nostr is full of bots, Crypto scams and DMs look just the same.

Nostr is mostly for #Bitcoiners, #Cypherpunks and tech-savy people. Crypto scammers won't bother with Nostr because none of their 50 IQ scams would work here. Regarding IPs, id rather trust the relays that i choose and are ran by plebs like me, than big tech anti-freedom overlords. You don't have to pay for any relay, you can self-host your own relay, backup all your notes, and broadcast them at any time to new relays in case you get banned. I've been using #Nostr for a while and i only had to mute 1 bot so far. My DMs are clean. If i were on Twitter my notifications would be spammed with crypto scammers tagging me, the fact that Elon doesn't fix that is beyond me.

With increased exposure comes a larger attack surface and you will receive more spam. I see you have about 100 follows and half as many followers, 10 or 20x that and you will notice. Deactivating global feed for free relays helps with the spam as paid relays do a good job filtering out the crap but if the free experience is porn and spam, people stay away. There is no free lunch and that is just right. V4V. Your infos won't just stay on some of your chosen relays, they spread, and your npub will be regarded as attack worthy. The again, there won't be much more free lunch as running relays cost money and with more adoption comes higher demand for data throughput and storage, the altruism will run out fast. You will either need to pay for a connection, see ads (which will usher in the censorship), or be on your own node. But why would other relays accept your nodes data upload and offer free downstream to you? There will be many Nostr networks, some isolated, by choice or by force, losly connected by some index servers, and that's okay because that what evolution, freedom and resilience mean. At least it grows naturally and by the means of all market forces, ideologies, desires, virtues and vices Man. The protocol will find a way. https://tenor.com/de/view/life-life-finds-a-way-jeff-goldblum-gif-7391185

You make a good points. I guess I'll just have to wait and see what happens. But hey, my old Twitter account had no followers, no comments, no likes, and my follow list was private, yet, I still got spammed with DMs and notifications of scammers tagging me. Personally, I don't bother with the global feed. I'm only interested in the posts from people I follow and the topics/tags that i care about. Free relays not keeping notes in storage forever is a good thing, some folks might not want their posts hanging around online indefinitely.