0xtr on nostr

More users will come over time with better clients and more censorship from popular social media platforms, not worried about that.

Will be interesting to see how spam control is handled in either the protocol or in clients though. I know there have been discussions about using PoW on events but not sure how widespread that is today though.

Re: moderation, block/mute lists could probably be built both for the protocol as a NIP and in the clients but not sure if someone is working on such a feature yet

0xtr · 194w

One thing I’m worried about though is the metadata leakage from NIP-04 events. I know there have been some proposals on how to handle that but I don’t think there is any fix for it yet?

Manfromcastle · 193w

to play devil's advocate. Was just at a boomer conference for right wing techhies, and most simply don't give a shit to switch from perceived "Elon" censor free twitter.

monlovesmango · 193w

astral isn't close to using POW but its in the road map. imo this is the best way to be able to mitigate spam. I'm imagining a teired POW where if you've posted too many events per minute/hour/day, needed POW increases. I also think relays would be good for filtering for POW

nostrich · 193w

I still like the idea of making a small payment to use nostr (although if it's not crypto that probably becomes painful to implement, and if it is you alienate lots of people). Easily eliminates 95% of spam and provides some type of monetary incentive to developers or relay operators.

nostrich · 193w

Regarding PoW, how would this work exactly? It seems to me it's only effective if all clients opt in (If a client doesn't do you just ignore PoW for those clients? Then all spammers use that client. If you require it then you ban everyone that uses the client. Both seem bad.)