49 sats \ 2 replies \ @grayruby 22 Jan \ on: Stacker Saloon
Howdy!
Reaching out to the nostr users in the saloon. Have you all noticed a dramatic increase in bots on the platform? I am not a nostr power user but have had an account for over a year which I check daily and post/engage sporadically. I have never had a problem with bots on my account but when I created an account for the stacker sports territory and started engaging with notes in various sports hashtags it seems every reply I get from a user is accompanied by a series of likes and reposts from a bunch of bots. I just mute all the bots but it is annoying because I am trying to measure engagement as part of my territory marketing initiative.
Have others had this problem on nostr recently?
It was bound to happen. I was worried and warning about it a year ago. It's the biggest point of failure for nostr. I think there needs to be a fee-to-post system, but that's hard to implement on every relay, and a catch-22 for new users who don't have any sats.
Unfortunately, I think decentralized social media is going to be relegated to the type of people who run Linux. Or it just won't happen until a wave of new interest in Bitcoin emerges, in 10 or 20 years.