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This is what all fediverse protocols and specs gaining traction today should be designing for. Email was lucky and got their foot in the door before the dotcom
by teawrecks 4y ago
This is what all fediverse protocols and specs gaining traction today should be designing for. Email was lucky and got their foot in the door before the dotcom era figured out about walled gardens. Now we're slowly crawling back out of them, but if we're not careful we'll be out of the pot and into the frying pan.
- ocdtrekkie 4y agoUnfortunately, the fediverse likely will have many of the same problems as email and RBLs today: It's less automated, but groups of admins share servers to block en masse, and not all admins bother to vet the claims before doing so. Once your server is on enough servers' block lists, it's near impossible to get off of them. One of the most useful block lists people upload is generated based on how many other servers have blocked it. So once you're there, even if the situation has changed, you may have to petition a dozen or so servers to remove a block on you before you come off the list everyone else is using. Botspam is an increasing problem, servers can get blacklisted because too many spammers get on it faster than the admin addresses the issue. And there's really no automated tools for handling all of it yet.