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A comment on Fiatjaf/nostr – a censorship-resistant alternative to Twitter.

Re:Fiatjaf/nostr – a censorship-resistant alternative to Twi... by r721 on Friday December 31, 2021 @11:53AM (#29749813)
>If spam is a concern for a relay, it can require payment for publication or some other form of authentication, such as an email address or phone, and associate these internally with a pubkey that then gets to publish to that relay — or other anti-spam techniques, like hashcash or captchas.

Sounds like these anti-spam measures are not actually implemented yet.

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Re:Fiatjaf/nostr – a censorship-resistant alternative to Twi... by supertestnet on Friday December 31, 2021 @01:44PM (#29751106)
Correct. Spam is not a problem yet because nostr is super new and no one uses it yet. But a few friendly bots have been released for it (since it's very bot-dev friendly) and DMs are open by default (and the branle client has no way to close them) so spam is basically guaranteed to come eventually.
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