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How do they deal with Spam? Domains are cheap, someone could just stand up new instances, federate, dump a load of Spam on everyone and not care about their ins
by luckylion 4y ago
How do they deal with Spam? Domains are cheap, someone could just stand up new instances, federate, dump a load of Spam on everyone and not care about their instance being defederated.
- zimpenfish 4y ago> dump a load of Spam on everyone Personally, I wouldn't see it because my main timeline is "following only" (I also have a "followers + replies they make" view for finding new content.) Also I'd be able to remove it because I control my server. Also also I could write a Pleroma filter which says "if it's a post to me and I've not seen that instance before, hide it".
- wasmitnetzen 4y agoFor one, you can't really spam hashtags since there's no global search or timeline. It only shows up for users if someone on their instance follows the spamming account. Reply spam still works, but that doesn't scale as easily.
- progval 4y agoAs an instance admin since 2017: we don't have a way to fight this, and it just hasn't been an issue yet because spammers are incompetent. They always just sign up with accounts on legit instances. When competent spammers start looking at Mastodon, either we hope buying domains is too expensive to be worth it (unlike email spam), or rely on IP range bans.