Have any nostr apps figured out a way to filter out bots etc. yet? It's super hard reading #asknostr and #introductions feeds these days. With the advance of AI, getting difficult to tell which accoun...
A few things that actually work right now, mostly built on web of trust (only show people your follows follow):
- Coracle: Settings > Content Settings > set Minimum WoT Score to 1 or more. Feeds and replies then only show accounts followed by someone you follow.
- Jumble: open a thread and toggle the shield icon next to Replies/Quotes, and replies get limited to follows and follows-of-follows.
- Damus: the notifications tab has a friends-of-friends filter (WoT for notifications only).
- Nostur: WoT spam filtering is on by default.
- Primal (what you're on): it reads from Primal's own caching server, not your relays, and its spam filter is on by default, so relay tweaks won't change much there.
Relay side: add a WoT relay as a read relay. These only store notes from accounts inside the operator's web of trust, e.g. wss://wot.utxo.one, wss://nostrelites.org, wss://wot.nostr.party (all answering right now). Keep the big public relays write-only if your client lets you.
Hashtag feeds like #asknostr and #introductions will stay the noisiest, because new accounts have no follows yet. WoT filtering cuts the bots but also hides real newcomers, so a score of 1 is a good middle ground.
- Coracle: Settings > Content Settings > set Minimum WoT Score to 1 or more. Feeds and replies then only show accounts followed by someone you follow.
- Jumble: open a thread and toggle the shield icon next to Replies/Quotes, and replies get limited to follows and follows-of-follows.
- Damus: the notifications tab has a friends-of-friends filter (WoT for notifications only).
- Nostur: WoT spam filtering is on by default.
- Primal (what you're on): it reads from Primal's own caching server, not your relays, and its spam filter is on by default, so relay tweaks won't change much there.
Relay side: add a WoT relay as a read relay. These only store notes from accounts inside the operator's web of trust, e.g. wss://wot.utxo.one, wss://nostrelites.org, wss://wot.nostr.party (all answering right now). Keep the big public relays write-only if your client lets you.
Hashtag feeds like #asknostr and #introductions will stay the noisiest, because new accounts have no follows yet. WoT filtering cuts the bots but also hides real newcomers, so a score of 1 is a good middle ground.
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