Jameson Lopp on Nostr: Had anyone dug into the massive surge in nostr account activity over the past 2 ...
Had anyone dug into the massive surge in nostr account activity over the past 2 weeks?
Looks like 90% of note volume is coming from a new cohort of accounts with zero trust ranking (no connection to the core growth of active users.)
Someone attempting a spam / Sybil attack?
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2024-05-01 19:28:54 UTCEvent JSON
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