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the axiom 1 week ago
are you all really ok with the absurd amount of bots that exist in nostr?

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the axiom 1 week ago
no one is going to do anything about it? will people really just reply saying that they have blocked some or that their client filters some? do you really think nostr can get more than a thousand users being such a shitty place?
I haven’t seen one the entire time. But I’ve also never scrolled a public relay feed before.
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Hofer99 1 week ago
Better then shitty legacy social media any day so i dunno what you btching about? Where you migrating from?
I don’t believe there is any way to solve the bot problem. At least not with a β€œglobal town square” like Nostr where anyone can just generate an npub and join a few of the big relays.
Considering how few users are here on Nostr, I’d say the bot problem here is far worse than on the big platforms. And it’s pretty obvious when you consider how easy it is to generate bot accounts on here. No info needed to signup. Just generate a few thousand npubs.
But I’d gladly take bots over centralized platforms for the freedom here on Nostr. Maybe WoT can fix the bot issue πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ
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Hofer99 1 week ago
Yeah me too. Go on a politicians page. All fake spun up bots...
Tolerating and battling bot spam has mostly developed into some weird form of comraderie similar to the way people brag about getting banned/suspended/whatever on big platforms. It's kinda crazy πŸ˜… will show you a default view of comments/replies from the OPs inboxes, so you'll still see some bots on certain people's notes, but it makes it very easy to see who is okay with (or unaware that they are) living in dirty conditions. The super nasty past spam attacks have pushed a lot of people into safer inboxes, though. Beyond that, if you want to add a view of replies that were published to other relays beyond their inboxes, you can just choose one or type one in. That way you can still find all the spam and the mysterious "banned" users, if you want. It makes muting a more normal and rational action, rather than it being an absolutely critical part of browsing. But of course, this concept hasn't been widely adopted because mute is a sword and swords are cool, I guess. 🫠 or maybe the hope that 3rd party wot providers will just fix everything for everyone is very broad. I don't know. If you like the client, you can fork it as an nsite and customize it with different fixed feeds of relays, npubs or any mix of those. It's pretty cool.
Because it only allows in content from your follow and your followings following. Everything else stayed blocked. Sorry something went wrong during your first experience
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