The only issue I have with some many of the current methods of combating bots and spam is that there isn't any way to differentiate a brand new user from a bot, so it adversely affects new users, too.
It's not terribly difficult to break through this. You just have to know someone who is on Nostr already and ask them to follow you via some other means of communicating with them. But if you don't know that you need to do this in order to bootstrap into not being considered a bot by everyone's WoT relays and Pagerang filters, then you'll just be shouting into the void and wondering why no one ever sees it.
Dikaios1517
npub1ku…v3lhe
2025-03-31 20:32:34
in reply to nevent1q…ufuw
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npub1kun5628raxpm7usdkj62z2337hr77f3ryrg9cf0vjpyf4jvk9r9smv3lhePublished at
2025-03-31 20:32:34Event JSON
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