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On Mastodon, I believe it's currently somewhat backwards from this. The largest instances are filled with Japanese anime porn, and the smaller instances end up

On Mastodon, I believe it's currently somewhat backwards from this. The largest instances are filled with Japanese anime porn, and the smaller instances end up blacklisting them.

rootusrootus 4y ago
Anecdotally, this has happened every time I've set up any kind of social media instance / discussion forum / BBS (back in the day!) / whatever. It immediately gets consumed by people who use it to host porn, and then all the intended users leave.
- derefr 4y ago
  Have you considered creating a discussion platform where people can't post images, URLs / things that would be URLs if you added a URL scheme to them, ASCII-armored baseN-encoded anything, etc? For 99% of the discussion you want on the platform, text is all you need. For spammers and people who want to host porn, text alone is useless.
  - sodality2 4y ago
    Plenty of spammers rely on text, though. A good chunk of my spam folder is text only.
    - derefr 4y ago
      Likely text containing URLs, though, which your email client likely helpfully auto-formats into links. Which is why spammers would bother. They need you to go visit something to make money. There are types of bulk unsolicited email/web-comments which involve text without links, but they aren't spam per se; they're (the initial bait emails for) scams. (And the usual solution to scam postings on forums, is to prevent people from sharing any off-forum contact details, except maybe via forum private message. No Nigerian prince is going to run their whole scam through the forum; they want/need to convert you ASAP into having a non-intermediated conversation with them. So they won't bother with any forum where they can't stuff their email address / Telegram handle / etc into each post.)
  - Induane 4y ago
    I've been itching for an experiment; might be fun to make a modernized BBS system for people to deploy.
Tao332 4y ago
If you're not spontaneously flooded with hentai, how do you even know your internet is working?
skocznymroczny 4y ago
Japanese anime porn is not something that would trigger a banwave. A few posts from Trump, however...
- lostcolony 4y ago
  Well, one of them is rotting the moral fabric of the country, and the other is just some hand drawn people having sex.

On Mastodon, I believe it's currently somewhat backwards from this. The largest instances are filled with Japanese anime porn, and the smaller instances end up blacklisting them.

rootusrootus 4y ago

Anecdotally, this has happened every time I've set up any kind of social media instance / discussion forum / BBS (back in the day!) / whatever. It immediately gets consumed by people who use it to host porn, and then all the intended users leave.

derefr 4y ago
Have you considered creating a discussion platform where people can't post images, URLs / things that would be URLs if you added a URL scheme to them, ASCII-armored baseN-encoded anything, etc? For 99% of the discussion you want on the platform, text is all you need. For spammers and people who want to host porn, text alone is useless.
- sodality2 4y ago
  Plenty of spammers rely on text, though. A good chunk of my spam folder is text only.
  - derefr 4y ago
    Likely text containing URLs, though, which your email client likely helpfully auto-formats into links. Which is why spammers would bother. They need you to go visit something to make money. There are types of bulk unsolicited email/web-comments which involve text without links, but they aren't spam per se; they're (the initial bait emails for) scams. (And the usual solution to scam postings on forums, is to prevent people from sharing any off-forum contact details, except maybe via forum private message. No Nigerian prince is going to run their whole scam through the forum; they want/need to convert you ASAP into having a non-intermediated conversation with them. So they won't bother with any forum where they can't stuff their email address / Telegram handle / etc into each post.)
- Induane 4y ago
  I've been itching for an experiment; might be fun to make a modernized BBS system for people to deploy.

Tao332 4y ago

If you're not spontaneously flooded with hentai, how do you even know your internet is working?

skocznymroczny 4y ago

Japanese anime porn is not something that would trigger a banwave. A few posts from Trump, however...

lostcolony 4y ago
Well, one of them is rotting the moral fabric of the country, and the other is just some hand drawn people having sex.