There’s probably something to this, if you run a paid relay then it plays to your interests if free ones drown in spam. Devs have similar incentives.

It was some shitty Atari clone

Vlad the Impaler

For what it’s worth, my relay wss://n.ok0.org is free and deals with this bot through the write policy.

It’s not even a very sophisticated spam attack and blocking or muting the bridge is a dumb solution.

Anyway I have mitigated this type of attack on wss://n.ok0.org - it was a bit challenging to do because I want to keep the flow of non spammy notes going, my write policy is reasonably fancy now.

To give you some idea of the scale, here’s the past 12 hours in the logs:

This is not even the only spam attack, there have been others going on for a while now, this one is just the most visible/annoys the most people because the spam is replies, so it generates notifications.

Mitigating this for my relay doesn’t really matter in the great scheme of things, people would have to exclusively only use my relay for this to benefit them, the spam will keep coming through on all other relays and not all of them will deal with it. Clients have the most impact in dealing with this shit.

The shitty bit is this only amplifies calls for walled off relay access (behind fees or whatever), which undermines the idea of Nostr.

It’s so majestic!

It’s perfect!

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Twinkle twinkle little star

This made me lol

I know how to draw terribly 😅

😧 Yeah me too, I was really looking forward to this one

The secret service walking the president’s dog

I love it!