wat. it seems to be abusing nostr relays for proxying traffic via ephemeral events.
this is an attack on nostr, adds unnecessary load to already bandwidth-constrained public relays and makes them harder to run.
I will have to add ephemeral note blocking to noteguard and strfry now =/
jb55 / Will
npub1xt…vkk5s
2024-07-23 00:10:28
in reply to nevent1q…dg67
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npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5sPublished at
2024-07-23 00:10:28Event JSON
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