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I think you've hit the nail on the head with the spam comment. In a federated system, it is up to everyone to protect themselves against spam. We put up with
by eterm 11y ago
I think you've hit the nail on the head with the spam comment.
In a federated system, it is up to everyone to protect themselves against spam.
We put up with it for email, because in the most part it pre-dated other solutions. I don't think people will put up with it for social networking.
- icebraining 11y agoClosed social networks have plenty of spam. I'd say the main difference is that on email, you get messages from everyone, whereas in most social networks, you need to voluntarily subscribe to someone's feed to get their messages; that alone massively cuts down on the efficiency of spam.
- reitoei 11y agoI see tons of spam on Facebook from 'friends'.
- pjc50 11y agoAll social networks need an "introduction" system of some sort so people can find you, and some of those introductions will be spam. For example, on twitter there are fake accounts that will follow you in the hope of getting you to look at their spam profile.
- Animats 11y agoI was amazed that anyone was bothering to spam Frendicia. The audience is so tiny.