Oddbean new post about login | logout While I don’t have any reason to believe any particular person was responsible for the recent Nostr spam, it would be a sly way to urge users to use apps and services that mitigate it, and those solutions could also be made by the same person creating the spam/problem. Just putting on my conspiracy hat for a few moments.
Create the problem and then offer the plebs of solution that you can pay for
Or that they can somehow otherwise use to monetize you
Come on. It's so obvious. "Cui prodest?" has worked for 2000 years now, and it rarely fails. Whoever is pushing for: 1. Paid relays 2. Censored relays is the one directly benefiting and most likely behind this.
It’s definitely worth being suspicious about
It was fiatjaf. Dude's a trickster. (I don't *know* this, but I think so)
https://primal.net/e/note18vvk8rtchp6an6tm4z9vlhrn2a76mvhu0j0h6yzj7y2v095zefjq3nf02m
💯 It’s at least worth considering
I get what you're throwing down. nostr:nprofile1qqsw9n8heusyq0el9f99tveg7r0rhcu9tznatuekxt764m78ymqu36cpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuat50phjummwv5hsz9thwden5te0veex2mnn9e6hg7r09ehkuef0qyfhwumn8ghj7am0wsh82arcduhx7mn99ue0hx63 and nostr:nprofile1qqsrhuxx8l9ex335q7he0f09aej04zpazpl0ne2cgukyawd24mayt8gprdmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuam9wd6x2unwvf6xxtnrdakj7qgnwaehxw309amk7apww468smewdahx2tckuej4c made the WoT relay, paid me 100 sats to spin up the relay, just so I could spend $50 a month on a server. It's a long con to make me burn fiat.
Those rascals 🤣
The windows playbook in action.
My morning thoughts were similar, more legacy platforms trying to scare new and old users away from nostr by exploiting the censorship-free stance of most devs… they can use it as an example of the “perks” of filters that their platforms have, or if devs aggressively filter the spammers, they can claim that nostr isn’t the censorship resistant protocol that we claim… and the new plebs that still don’t understand protocol vs. platform will believe them
💯 Very well could be
Follow the money
Always
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It was me.
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