This seems like a good opportunity to prove the resiliency of the protocol to me.
We will weather this shit.
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Yeah, I mean, dealing with issues like this is still better than being on a corporate monarchy like twitter or fb 🤷♂️
I remember at it’s worst spam being every third post on insta and FB.
And by spam I mean ads.
And by at it’s worst I mean so far.
So I’m still very happy with the switch
I haven’t had a FB account in years, but a friend has been on it for nearly 2 decades. They said there’s no longer any posts from people on their Friends lists, it’s become nearly all ads/spam as they scroll.
Yeah, don’t offer open signups, kids.
What exactly is an “open” signup? Is it as opposed to invite only?
There was a conversation the other day on this, but I forget the exact details.
Open sign up is nothing is required to let you sign up.
Closed is obviously invite only/manually must be accepted.
But there’s the middle ground that wasn’t technically open sign up, where the only requirements are filling out a captcha, and usually email verification.
Ah, I see. Thank you, Sir Fuckwit McBumCrumble. 👍
On feddit.de, when I registered (during the great reddit migration), I had to write a short introduction about myself too. I believe it was read by a moderator and manually accepted, but I’m not sure.
We require an email address and a response to a question on our signups. The response doesn’t need to be more than about 5 words, it’s just to stop bots putting random characters or single words in there.
So far, it has seemed to ride that balance between low bar of entry and too hard to spam with bot applicants.
That said, if I wanted to spam the Fediverse, I’d just spin up my own instance of Lemmy or Mastodon.
That said, if I wanted to spam the Fediverse, I’d just spin up my own instance of Lemmy or Mastodon.
Its actually smarter for spammers to infiltrate populated servers. Admins aren’t going to have a problem defederating from a pure spam instance. They’ll think twice about defederating from an instance with lots of legit users.
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To peoplw who hasn’t seen any spam next time there is a wave block some of the subs you don’t like, disable show read post , enable mark as read on scroll and set sort to all and top hour. I found it buy runjing out of conetent on all top day
How visible is this to the average user? Just wondering because I have yet to see any spam at all in my Mastodon feeds. Big thanks to the admins for being on top of it!
I saw zero spam and multiple posts talking about spam.
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