Thanks for the write up.

Best to ignore counts and focus on the interaction and the person behind each interaction.

Hello there! Did you consider adding a how web of trust fixes this segment 👀

For sure, followers, engagement, zaps can all be borked, comments now with LLMS can be pretty unique and seem like real engagement I really like coracles web of trust metric, I'm sure it can also be spoofed with enough time, but any layer helps slightly

Thanks for the info!

WoT goes 96% of the way to solving this problem, we'll figure the remaining 4% out in-flight.

u not gonna open source ur script .... (jk)

Interesting experiment. Nostr's decentralized relay can avoid malicious network attacks. And it will not affect the use of the client.

Have you heard of Dan?

On your takeaways: > - over half the Nostr listed relays are using some sort of spam mitigation technique(s) That's great to know! > - the attack was still achieveable Attack of what exactly? You wasted 10gb of space on some relays, and got to top on one app. Other apps were fine. > - socal me...

Breaking news: NOBODY HERE CARES ABOUT FOLLOWERS

https://thank-god-for-nostr.simplecast.com/episodes/pipellia

I dig the experiment… there’s plenty in there that’ll help improve some apps and relays It’s worth noting that you now have 1+ million followers who look like NPC’s following 1 person 0 followers 0 posts 0 interactions You can start faking lots of these, like getting the NPC’s to foll...

Good lesson. Well played :)

Now do one for how to get a million zaps 😉

Insight is the real treasure.