> Botspam killed blog comments, same way it killed discussion boards. The discussion boards I'm on that are still active do not have a spam problem. The usual

> Botspam killed blog comments, same way it killed discussion boards. The discussion boards I'm on that are still active do not have a spam problem. The usual methods of limiting new accounts and giving established accounts a bit of moderation power (e.g. several accounts flagging a post as spam hides it from other users) seems to be sufficient as long as the traffic is there. I think the bigger problem in most cases is that people have left for more centralized platforms because the barrier to entry is lower, or some parts of the user experience are better. One part of the UX that centralized platforms do better is allowing users to get updates on more conversations in one place. Polling a large number of sites gets annoying, and email is not a great notification system (web push notifications are improving this). More federated systems could help here, though I haven't been especially impressed with Matrix or ActivityPub-based social networking so far.