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You don't get spam unless you follow spam accounts... ALso at the instance level you could easily have some spam account detection going on just like you do on

You don't get spam unless you follow spam accounts... ALso at the instance level you could easily have some spam account detection going on just like you do on emails. And for instances that engage in unmoderated spam, you can block such instances from being accessible from your instance. Many ways to deal with it.

jefftk 4y ago
> You don't get spam unless you follow spam accounts... What about notifications about people you don't follow who have replied to, boosted, or favorited your posts? > for instances that engage in unmoderated spam, you can block such instances from being accessible from your instance At which point they can just make new instances, since it's all allow-by-default.