cloud fodder on Nostr: Been thinking about inboxes for a while.. Trying to think of the perspective of a ...

Been thinking about inboxes for a while.. Trying to think of the perspective of a popular user who gets probably an overwhelming amount of inbox spam. So far all the gossip specs are missing something, they're missing the idea of paid relays. Paid relays, even for small amounts, think how nice this would be for popular users. Someone has to pay, to send to their inbox, send them a DM etc (even just a one time payment). This cuts malicious users/bots down at their kneecaps because it becomes possible to moderate your inbox. Without this, bots can just spin a million keys and destroy your nostr experience while laughing all the way to the bank (the bank that cost them nothing to use).

So, what I think needs to happen, is gossip spec should to expand to think more about the paid relay case, clients should make it clear to a user that the inbox for that user is paid, and help them do this, or point them at a secondary inbox (which is not checked that much because think about it, this is a common twitter problem too, big social media accounts don't even read their comments and they think this is a solution. Nostr can do better than this. Large accounts should not have to go into broadcast only mode or get constantly screwed by bots).

mikedilger (npub1acg…p35c) PABLOF7z (npub1l2v…ajft) Vitor Pamplona (npub1gcx…nj5z) thoughts?