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Agreed, charging for accounts is the only halfway viable solution I have seen any service use that gives a sizable downtick in the sheer number of bots/spam. O
by ranger_danger 2y ago
Agreed, charging for accounts is the only halfway viable solution I have seen any service use that gives a sizable downtick in the sheer number of bots/spam.
Of course it's not perfect, and it will still happen, but I have yet to hear any better solutions. Please prove me wrong though!
- jcpham2 2y agoThis is known as a Sybil [1] attack and it lays the groundwork for stuff like Adam Backs hashcash [2] protocol and it’s basically why things like proof of work [3] have a monetary value today. Very chicken and egg this entire field- defending against the spammers while simultaneously operating a “free” system. How to do it without making it prohibitively expensive to join the system… Any free system will be abused yada yada yada [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_attack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_attack [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_of_work https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_of_work