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It seems to me like you don't understand the crucial difference between Twitter and Mastodon. There's no such thing as Mastodon, a singular social network. Mas
by r3bl 9y ago
It seems to me like you don't understand the crucial difference between Twitter and Mastodon.
There's no such thing as Mastodon, a singular social network. Mastodon is a series of instances that talk to each other. A sysadmin running the instance can do whatever he pleases in his instance, including closing the registration, banning entire instances from communicating with his instance, and enforcing whichever rules he wants to enforce.
Mastodon doesn't deal with such issues at all. It's sysadmins running Mastodon instances that are supposed to deal with such issues.
It's more like reddit, where mods of subreddits have nearly complete authority over their own space on the social network, than it is like Twitter, in which a single entity is in charge.
- freehunter 9y agoAnd we all know Reddit is free from spam and bots.
- philipwhiuk 9y agoYou mean like how we defederate email servers that have lots of spammers but also lots of legitimate users. Oh wait no we don't.
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- westurner 9y agoMastodon is a federated system like StatusNet/GNU Social. So, in your opinion, Mastodon nodes - by virtue of being federated - would be better equipped to handle the spam and harassment volume that Twitter is subject to? I find that hard to believe. ActivityPub (and OStatus, and ActivityStreams/Salmon, and OpenSocial) are all great specs and great ideas. Hosting and moderation cost real money (which spammers/scammers are wasting). Know what's also great? Learning. For learning, we have the xAPI/TinCan spec and also schema.org/Action.