mccrmx on Nostr: A mix of PoW, bayesian spam score, and other metrics like looking at who follows the ...
A mix of PoW, bayesian spam score, and other metrics like looking at who follows the user and the distance of their followers from you (WOT-ish measure) will probably get us a long way. These are not new technologies. The bayesian spam checker running on my email server filters 99% of spam and it is a very old piece of software with a simple implementation:
https://spamprobe.sourceforge.net/Published at
2024-11-28 07:57:18Event JSON
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