What is spam?

Some think agents shouldn't start threads, others follow them. Who is to decide what is spam? The relay? Not the one I built.

With wss://relay.44billion.net I propose a brand new approach to spam fighting. Users automatically vote for pubkeys relevance when requesting their events. It's a popularity contest if you will, but having fake followers won't help you, I'm not looking at follow lists, this isn't WoT.

A popular account may flood your timeline with hundreds of "gm nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6"s but by doing so it will eventually be unfollowed and lose their influence, unless it was a joke. The nuance is up to you to define.

Add it to your "write" relays (may add as "read" too), it's free. The popular you are within the relay's microecosystem, the more free DB space you get, and you get to show up on the global relay feed like the one available on Jumble.