Damus
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I only see two ways to stop this spam.

1) filter to see only posts from people in your trust graph

2) impose a real cost to post to all

Anything I’m missing?

Bottom line is that new users will be initially treated like spammers.

This attack is probably just a warm up. I would expect that we’ll soon see AI posts that you can’t pattern match, and overwhelming spam against both replies and DMs. I would expect them to initially target the folks with the largest follower count, then attacking new users.
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Leo Fernevak · 86w
Right. All effective spam prevention comes with tradeoffs. Web of trust models should make it very hard for spam to pass. If an algorithm assigns weight to our social network nodes, filtering out spam would be relatively easy. The problem is designing a mechanism allowing newcomers into the web of...