Code snippets in the likes of gists or PasteBin are one of the most obvious applications of Nostr. A needed one, since PasteBin will delete shit based on automated moderation even if you have a pro account (happened to me).
They are text notes, they are shorts, they are unmodifiable, they are just like tweets, except they contain code.
I would have expected the global feed to be clean, since it's not where spam would show up (who are you spamming to? Programmers?), but no, it's shit.
This is one of the actual code snippets I found. Most of the feed is crap.
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It seems to me that many applications are using NIP-C0 kind:1337 events not for human-readable code snippets, but, rather, as a transport layer, for app-specific machine-generated transactions, thus littering the global feed.
I don't know if it is intentional or due to a misunderstanding, but it is truly disappointing.
These applications should, instead, rely on some event kind specific to them.
It'd be nice to reach out to those developers and ask them to fix this.
Some users are using it for very long files, too (not exactly snippets), which is also bad, although not as bad.