Re:Edward Snowden Joins Nostr
by jjulius on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @12:18PM
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>What will it do about spam?
It seems that would depend on, or change according to, each individual relay.
>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. If a relay is being used as a spam vector, it can easily be unlisted by clients, which can continue to fetch updates from other relays.[0]
It seems that would depend on, or change according to, each individual relay.
>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. If a relay is being used as a spam vector, it can easily be unlisted by clients, which can continue to fetch updates from other relays.[0]
[0] https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr