😂Whether it was you or not, the spam attack on all event replies was successful. This was a great attack experiment on Nostr. At least it exposed the biggest vulnerability of Nostr in the early stage. This is a good thing for us, we should find a way to solve it. This will prevent concentrated attacks on government legacy systems in the future. After stopping the attack, Nostr quickly restored a clean communication environment.
The only obstacle to Nostr's future development is spam. Not the review and removal of iOS and Google stores.
The first spam war occurred in the spam attack on Nostr's global posts. It caused the earliest users to leave Nostr. Finally, nostr.band and nostr.wine's Relay provided clean Nostr global posts.
The second spam war was spam replies to all posts. It interrupted Nostr's communication atmosphere. It interrupted Nostr's growth in 2024. Many users left temporarily.
Perhaps paid certified NIP05 filtering would be a good solution. We already have many excellent NIP05 verification operators. Derek Ross 's nostrplebs.com , quentin 's nostrcheck.me , etc. Give the filtering rights to users, and use the client to choose which certifiers' user content to display. Build the first spam firewall.
The earlier #Nostr discovers this problem, the less impact it will have on users. Fortunately, Nostr has very few users now.
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I think paid verification is a good firewall and threshold. It is not easy to create a NIP05 spam account with paid verification. The payment may not require 50,000 sats, maybe only 500 sats or 50 sats. A new user can easily get the amount. And NIP05 filtering can be used in normal times. It is only used when facing large-scale spam attacks. In this way, our Nostr notification and reply list can maintain a good atmosphere of communication and exchange. Free verification has no value, and spam will still be rampant.
Just like now we can not use NIP05 filtering. Because the spammers have stopped attacking Nostr, Nostr's clean communication atmosphere is back.
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To be honest, the users I meet at Nostr now all know what sats are. The users who join Nostr have been patiently served by Bitcoin users. The reality is that Nostr’s current users do not have tens of millions of daily active users, but only tens of thousands of daily active users.
If someone is willing, they can provide free NIP certification. Whether it is free or paid verification, operators can refuse spam certification. This can avoid malicious attacks. The problem here is not the high or low cost, but the need for an economic incentive mechanism to encourage NIP05 operators to operate for a long time.
We can put a NIP05 filter button in the message notification bar. It can be used normally and left to the user to decide.
If spammers create their own NIP05, it will be a good thing for spam filtering. Filtering spam will become easier. NIP05 is only an effective solution when facing a large-scale spam attack. But it is not the only way. But we need to provide users with a tool or button to solve spam now.
WOT can only see the messages and conversations of the people you follow and the people you follow. This will only form a private space, and you cannot receive messages from new users.
Each time, spam attacks on Nostr become more and more large-scale. Hundreds of fake accounts of Nostr developers reply to a post at the same time. Nostr's scattered developers are all individuals and cannot resist the attacks of a group with ulterior motives. Only the agreement is binding, but there is no better idea to solve the spam problem. It seems that anti-censorship and spam are natural symbiosis.
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Each time, spam attacks on Nostr become more and more large-scale. Hundreds of fake accounts of Nostr developers reply to a post at the same time. Nostr's scattered developers are all individuals and cannot resist the attacks of a group with ulterior motives. Only the agreement is binding, but there is no better idea to solve the spam problem. It seems that anti-censorship and spam are natural symbiosis.
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