It's an attack that results in a lesson. All spammers and attackers over the last two years have not been malicious. They've only shown where improvements can happen. I've welcomed all of it. Devs don't generally work to fix these issues until they become an issue.

I see it as a lesson that generative AI is absolutely destroying the free web. This is similar to an attack that happened on Session and, as I've heard, on Matrix lately as well. On Session, some script kiddy ran AI to spin up a botnet of user IDs, DDoSing all the open groups with random text, and even adverts for illegal groups, thus causing the entire network -- which is similarly relay-driven like Nostr and Tor -- to completely slow to a crawl. It took a while, but group admins finally got it under control. I'm not sure how, moderation tools are almost non-existent on Session. It made things miserable for a while and a lot of people jumped ship to other apps/other communications methods. One thing is for certain, if there are new people hopping on board Nostr right now, this is definitely not the best first look at what this protocol can do. I hope that those new people will stick with it and not let this discourage them.

Yes. It always gets better. Bring it on, I say.

You're not wrong. I think a solution is that we adapt, we self-host, we connect, we use PoW. As for new users, they'll come when we're all hard enough to guide them properly. For example, onboarding still does not make it clear to people that their IP is exposed, and how to prevent that. Early.