Scammers everywhere

Tbf, there is also an option for 1k sats in some places

If you run your own homeserver you don't need to. Unfortunately, letting anonymous people upload photos etc. is a non-starter in this day and age.

That's a bit cheap.

Says who? Who will stop you? In a decentralized network each person adjusts their filters. In a distributed network suddenly police become important because everyone is hold a piece of your data.

Pubky uses the Outbox model and #PKARR for resource discovery. I'm not actually involved in it, but iirc Start9 and Umbrel apps coming soon.

Yeah, I know how it works, my question still stands.

It's a question of risk approach. I am generally happy to allow people to use my servers/resources if I know them or if they are in my community. I guess Pubky's alternative risk approach can be recognised in its architecture. It's using semantic social, and this will be useful for community credit, as well as a bunch of other trust related stuff. Proof of the pudding will be in the eating tho.