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>So interoperability with everything, but somehow also ensure security, block spam and abusive people, etc. Probably not an easy thing to solve. This is the gi
by INTPenis 4y ago
>So interoperability with everything, but somehow also ensure security, block spam and abusive people, etc. Probably not an easy thing to solve.
This is the giant elephant in the room. If we compare AP to e-mail, then all of us who have worked in e-mail ops know the trouble brewing.
And it has already started.
So yes having a federated social media brings new problems but it also brings new freedoms.
- mcv 4y agoI think having sender authentication would help a lot. Email infamously doesn't have that, which makes it easy to spam. If every spammer had to identify themselves, they'd probably be a lot easier to block.
- pjc50 4y agoHow do you ensure non-recycling of identities? Even trying to bind to a real-world government ID isn't entirely effective and quite onerous.
- riffic 4y agodon't worry about it? on good instances identity will be tied to membership in an LDAP or AD sort of thing, with membership handed out as a perk of employment for example. bad instances get treated like spam email sites.
- pjc50 4y agoThis sounds way worse than email in the spamhaus etc blacklist sense, because all new instances will have to go round all the existing instances asking to be recognized as a "good" instance. This is very centralizing.
- mcv 4y agoYeah, there needs to be a benefit of the doubt until an instance proves it tolerates spammers. It would be nice if people had some hard online identity that this could be tied to, but we all know there's plenty of problems with that too. Still, social networks, even distributed ones, don't seem to have much of a spam problem so far.