That's why certain issues need to be on a per occurrence basis. But i think a simple POW (no reason it needs ASICs) would block the initial, very low hanging data spam. The automated fake accounts as a good example. Someone is just generating keys en masse and throwing out web requests to relays and bloating a bunch of "follow" events and there's virtually no cost for them to do this.
Add even just a second or 2 of POW for the average mobile device -- and you can even regulate it by the frequency of new requests from the same IP address (ie. maybe incrementally make POW harder if you get 100 of these requests in under 1 minute from the same IP), and I bet 90% of this disappears almost immediately.
TheGuySwann / Guy Swann
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2023-11-09 17:43:20
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