From 47d257faaf4b03a154ff2156394a4ece7f286bea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gigi <dergigi@pm.me>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2025 09:01:10 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] feat: add hardcoded bot pubkey filtering

---
 src/components/BlogPostCard.tsx |  3 ++-
 src/config/bots.ts              | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 src/config/bots.ts

diff --git a/src/components/BlogPostCard.tsx b/src/components/BlogPostCard.tsx
index 355195b0..4542a66c 100644
--- a/src/components/BlogPostCard.tsx
+++ b/src/components/BlogPostCard.tsx
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import { formatDistance } from 'date-fns'
 import { BlogPostPreview } from '../services/exploreService'
 import { useEventModel } from 'applesauce-react/hooks'
 import { Models } from 'applesauce-core'
+import { isKnownBot } from '../config/bots'
 
 interface BlogPostCardProps {
   post: BlogPostPreview
@@ -22,7 +23,7 @@ const BlogPostCard: React.FC<BlogPostCardProps> = ({ post, href, level, readingP
   const rawName = (profile?.name || profile?.display_name || '').toLowerCase()
 
   // Hide bot authors by name/display_name
-  if (hideBotByName && rawName.includes('bot')) {
+  if (hideBotByName && (rawName.includes('bot') || isKnownBot(post.author))) {
     return null
   }
   
diff --git a/src/config/bots.ts b/src/config/bots.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f319a23f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/config/bots.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+import { nip19 } from 'nostr-tools'
+
+/**
+ * Hardcoded list of bot pubkeys (hex format) to hide articles from
+ * These are accounts known to be bots or automated services
+ */
+export const BOT_PUBKEYS = new Set([
+  // Step Counter Bot (npub14l5xklll5vxzrf6hfkv8m6n2gqevythn5pqc6ezluespah0e8ars4279ss)
+  nip19.decode('npub14l5xklll5vxzrf6hfkv8m6n2gqevythn5pqc6ezluespah0e8ars4279ss').data as string,
+])
+
+/**
+ * Check if a pubkey corresponds to a known bot
+ */
+export function isKnownBot(pubkey: string): boolean {
+  return BOT_PUBKEYS.has(pubkey)
+}