_0x on Nostr: Maybe you can prevent spam with filters. But look at how well that works for ...

Maybe you can prevent spam with filters. But look at how well that works for protocols like Email or Twitter. Writing to Arweave would imply the same spam filter as Bitcoin uses: feel free to spam as long as you pay fees to miners for it.

Also everyone who uses nostr effectively creates a filter through which he views the global database by only pulling posts from people they follow. That’s pretty effective because it’s a web of trust and people are rewarded to interact with content, knowing to produce value for others.

But the real issue for centralization is that in an ideal world everyone would use the same nostr relay and be connected with everyone else.

Smaller relays only incur costs for their operators and they can’t build brands to monetize their services. I think.