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free speech might be self regulating. A place that gets excessive spam attracts no one and then there wouldn't be much motivation to spam it anymore. I don't r
by onetimeusename 4y ago
free speech might be self regulating. A place that gets excessive spam attracts no one and then there wouldn't be much motivation to spam it anymore.
I don't recall spam restrictions on old IRC. A moderator could boot you off. My own theory is having an exponential cool off timer on posts could be the only thing needed that still is technically 100% free speech.
- bombcar 4y agoIRC had tons of independent little servers doing their own thing. We have huge companies spanning the entire globe; if you get banned from one you're out world-wide. This is where federation can help, IF it truly is a bunch of smaller servers rather than ending up one large one.