cameri on Nostr: I don’t think that negates what I am saying, it’s a fact that compute is cheap, ...
I don’t think that negates what I am saying, it’s a fact that compute is cheap, there’s a reason it’s used in Bitcoin.
My point is that we should try to make spamming less attractive. The cumulative costs for a spammer become significant over time, whilst not so for the typical user. PoW is not useless: if it takes a spammer 20 minutes to send 1,000 replies vs 1 second, that is still slowing them down. That’s 20 minutes of high compute accumulating on the spammers bill.
Many users won’t even need to do PoW if they only care to be received by those that follow them, but a spammer has an incentive for their content to be seen by as many as possible. Mining could happen in the background while the user does other things, or by a DVM, or none at all (if you target your followers/WoT).
What we have now is free-for-all, a near-zero energy cost for users and spammers alike, absolutely no physical limits imposed all while having the technology to do so.
I’ll say it again: it’s a combination of measures that is needed to deal with spam, not a one-size fits all. WoT is great until it’s not, relay hopping and tagging is great until there’s no relays to run to.
My point is that we should try to make spamming less attractive. The cumulative costs for a spammer become significant over time, whilst not so for the typical user. PoW is not useless: if it takes a spammer 20 minutes to send 1,000 replies vs 1 second, that is still slowing them down. That’s 20 minutes of high compute accumulating on the spammers bill.
Many users won’t even need to do PoW if they only care to be received by those that follow them, but a spammer has an incentive for their content to be seen by as many as possible. Mining could happen in the background while the user does other things, or by a DVM, or none at all (if you target your followers/WoT).
What we have now is free-for-all, a near-zero energy cost for users and spammers alike, absolutely no physical limits imposed all while having the technology to do so.
I’ll say it again: it’s a combination of measures that is needed to deal with spam, not a one-size fits all. WoT is great until it’s not, relay hopping and tagging is great until there’s no relays to run to.