For the sender to get this info up front, it would probably need to be in some sort of "DM Policy" event kind that can be looked up by the sender's client from the receiver's relays.
Maybe this "DM Policy" event kind would include a tag for types of senders that are always accepted that could be set to follows only, web-of-trust, or allow all (not recommended unless you just like spam); and another tag for other optional conditions upon which a DM will be accepted from those who fall outside the filters, such as exceeding a pagerank threshold, including a certain amount of PoW, or paid postage using an eCash token from a reputable mint,
Of course, your DM inbox would then look very different, based on which clients respect your DM policy and which ones don't, but my inbox looks very different from client to client already, based on which DM NIPs they support. 😂
Maybe these policy tags could be included in the user's kind 10050, since clients SHOULD already be looking that up to determine where to send the DM anyway.
Dikaios1517
npub1ku…v3lhe
2025-05-23 20:29:26
in reply to nevent1q…yxfa
Author Public Key
npub1kun5628raxpm7usdkj62z2337hr77f3ryrg9cf0vjpyf4jvk9r9smv3lhePublished at
2025-05-23 20:29:26Event JSON
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"content": "For the sender to get this info up front, it would probably need to be in some sort of \"DM Policy\" event kind that can be looked up by the sender's client from the receiver's relays.\n\nMaybe this \"DM Policy\" event kind would include a tag for types of senders that are always accepted that could be set to follows only, web-of-trust, or allow all (not recommended unless you just like spam); and another tag for other optional conditions upon which a DM will be accepted from those who fall outside the filters, such as exceeding a pagerank threshold, including a certain amount of PoW, or paid postage using an eCash token from a reputable mint,\n\nOf course, your DM inbox would then look very different, based on which clients respect your DM policy and which ones don't, but my inbox looks very different from client to client already, based on which DM NIPs they support. 😂\n\nMaybe these policy tags could be included in the user's kind 10050, since clients SHOULD already be looking that up to determine where to send the DM anyway.",
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