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UPDATE: We have finished our testing or new relay build and are moving forward with upgrading our other 6 geo relays. Working on a more detailed blog post but wanted to touch on the changes we have made.

Thanks to everyone who has manually added the node for testing! (wss://ca.relayable.org)

Spam and bot prevention we've been testing is a five pronged approach:

1) IP blocking for known spam IPs at the firewall/WAF level (have seen bots sending 2GB+ of data per day to relays)
2) Keyword blocks for explicitly spam post keywords ($hitcoins, airdrops, etc)
3) Antiduplicate filtering for automated repetative spam
4) Rate-limiting for posting (non-human achievable speeds)
5) Manual review (e.g. user reported spam/bots we review case by case)

We are blocking some bots that do comment spamming. It is our belief that if you wish to interact with "AI" (e.g. LLMs) it should be user initiated. Not a bot commenting on your posts in an unsolicited manner.

We've resumed streaming from other relays as well. For one of the largest we block on average 250 events every 5 minutes.

If you feel we have blocked or not blocked something in error please DM us the info (npubs and/or note IDs) and we'll address it transparently.