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Let's make low time preference replying (not always replying immediately) great again. You can reply from a place of awareness you get over time and not reactively, prioritizing what really matters to you. Also, many things tend to be solved by themselves over time :) But since we expect nowadays to get immediate responses, it's great (for education and respect) to tell we're taking some more time because we care for that, or because we have other priorities

Yeah. Could introduce sliding scale pow. But probably need a variety of different spam blocking mechanisms.

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That makes sense. Thanks buddy🫂

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ChatGPT gave me this If you want to mitigate spam without relying on authentication, KYC, or CAPTCHA, you’ll need to focus on mechanisms that operate passively or are transparent to legitimate users while still making spamming costly or impractical. Here’s how you can achieve this: 1. Advanced Rate-Limiting • Sliding Window Rate Limiting: • Instead of fixed limits (e.g., 6 posts per minute), use a sliding window that dynamically adjusts based on user behavior. • Example: If a user sends 2 posts in 10 seconds, slow them down further (e.g., increase delay between posts). • Adaptive Rate-Limiting: • Increase the delay for posting if users exhibit behavior indicative of spam (e.g., repeated patterns or high frequency). • Legitimate users won’t feel this as they rarely approach limits. 2. Proof-of-Work • Require clients to perform a lightweight computational task (e.g., solving a hash puzzle) before each post. • Use libraries like hashcash to implement this. • Adjust difficulty dynamically: • Low posting rates = easy tasks. • High posting rates = harder tasks. • Spam becomes resource-intensive, especially for distributed attacks. 3. Behavioral Analysis • Use heuristics or machine learning to detect spammy behavior without blocking legitimate users: • Look for repeated similar messages from the same IP or across multiple IPs. • Detect patterns like burst activity (sudden spikes in message rate). • Analyze time intervals between messages to identify automation. • Temporarily ban or throttle suspicious activity. 4. IP-Based Techniques • IP Fingerprinting: • Track patterns associated with specific IPs, such as frequent message submissions, and temporarily ban offenders. • Soft IP Limits: • Enforce progressive throttling based on message volume: • First 10 messages per IP are free-flowing. • Further messages introduce delays or are queued. • IP Rotation Detection: • Use reverse DNS lookups or IP clusters to detect rotating proxies. • Block ranges of IPs if they’re part of spammy networks (e.g., TOR exit nodes, known VPNs). 5. Message Content Filtering • Duplicate Message Detection: • Block or flag identical or nearly identical messages being sent repeatedly. • Spam Keyword Detection: • Maintain a list of common spam phrases, URLs, or patterns, and filter messages that match these. • Natural Language Processing (NLP): • Use a lightweight NLP model to detect unnatural or spam-like messages (e.g., repeated links, excessive characters). 6. Reputation-Based Throttling • Assign reputation scores to connections based on their behavior: • New connections/IPs get stricter rate limits initially. • Over time, if no suspicious activity is detected, the rate limit relaxes. • Track reputation at the IP level and across message patterns. • No need for explicit user accounts or authentication. 7. Delayed Backoff • Introduce progressive delays for repeat submissions: • First 3 messages are instantaneous. • After 3, introduce a delay of 1 second, then 2 seconds, etc. • Legitimate users can tolerate slight delays, but spamming becomes impractical. 8. Honeypots • Create invisible fields or endpoints that only bots will interact with. • If a client interacts with these, automatically block them. • Example: A WebSocket endpoint that bots mistakenly try to send data to. 9. Token Bucket System • Assign tokens to each connection: • Each message consumes a token. • Tokens regenerate at a fixed rate (e.g., 1 token every 10 seconds). • Spammers will exhaust tokens quickly, while legitimate users will naturally regenerate them. 10. Statistical Pattern Recognition • Analyze activity across the entire relay: • Detect unusual traffic spikes. • Identify message patterns repeated across multiple IPs or regions. • Use these insights to automatically adjust throttling rules. 11. Geofencing or Regional Restrictions • If spam primarily comes from certain regions or IP ranges, apply regional throttling or outright block those regions. • Legitimate users from allowed regions won’t notice any impact. 12. Content-Based Delays • For certain types of content (e.g., messages with links), introduce submission delays or extra processing time. • This discourages spammers while minimally affecting legitimate users. Final Strategy Without KYC, CAPTCHA, or Authentication • Combine multiple approaches, such as: • Rate-limiting (adaptive or token bucket). • Behavioral analysis (detect patterns or anomalies). • Proof-of-work for high-volume senders. • Content filtering for duplicates or spam keywords. This layered approach makes it resource-intensive for spammers while remaining transparent for legitimate users.

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Yes the goal of the main damus relay is free for use by everyone (with reasonable spam limits)

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That would keep most people out :(

I’m still confused why my relay has anything to do with this, why don’t they use their own relay? Unless they do it based on picking a single relay from your relay list. Maybe need to mark which one is your inbox relay and they would use that instead ?

Could also pow requirement on all notes. Low enough to not slow posting significantly but introduces an expense to spammers.

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