The hidden words feature is really a superpower that more clients need to implement. I remember that we used it as a band-aid during the old reply-guy spam back in late summer of last year, too.
However, it is just that: a band-aid. It stopped working when the bots no longer used the words we were blocking, and this one will fail, too, if they stop using that user generation service to host their profile pictures.
Reading from relays that are better at spam mitigation is a more robust and long-term solution. And I say that as someone who does not run a paid relay I am trying to shill.
Dikaios1517
npub1ku…v3lhe
2025-06-03 18:31:31
in reply to nevent1q…3wmt
Author Public Key
npub1kun5628raxpm7usdkj62z2337hr77f3ryrg9cf0vjpyf4jvk9r9smv3lhePublished at
2025-06-03 18:31:31Event JSON
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