hodlbod on Nostr: Whatever happened to "permissionless decentralized network"? If you (we) can't deal ...

Whatever happened to "permissionless decentralized network"? If you (we) can't deal with even simple attacks like this then nostr is DOA. The main defense to protocol attacks is counter-attacks, either via client feature support (or lack of it), or specially crafted events. The result in either case is that users get a broken experience if they or people they follow use "bad" features.

The edit spam is the latter kind of attack. If users want edits but don't want spam, they can keep using Amethyst and stop following fiatjaf. If they want to keep following fiatjaf but avoid spam, they can use a new client. Be glad I guess that the spam is coming from just a few users, not from an entire hostile client like might someday arrive when Meta finds nostr.