Unfortunately I don’t have much faith in this social network until the bot issue is addressed. There is a huge contingent of spambots just waiting for their moments here.
Spam bots or spam servers? Everyone is saying regulate signups for servers but anyone can spin up a Lemmy server and spam with thousands of accounts until they are defedarated. Then 5 minutes later do it again with a new server. It’s not hard to setup a Lemmy server.
I actually think this is a non-issue , sure it will be a pain for a while but the decentralized model will easily adapt to this IMO. Its not like reddit was immune from bots eh.
An example is how obviously you can spot the bad actors here. I do not think is will be any more challenging indeed I think it will be easier to counter
Yeah, a nice feature of federation is that real communities can adjust their sign-up processes to minimize bot sign-ups, and while determined botfarms can spin up their own servers, that leads to pretty much the least controversial use case for admins to block another server.
Mastodon’s run into similar issues in the past with both bots and scrapers and typically no one has any issue with admins there defederating and entirely blocking those servers.
Which is why it’s great that the bottom of every single page, on every single lemmy instance, there’s a button to take you to the modlog. It shows what servers have been defederated and when. So if the person running your instance is being too heavy-handed with it, you can take your account and move to a different instance.
Unfortunately I don’t have much faith in this social network until the bot issue is addressed. There is a huge contingent of spambots just waiting for their moments here.
Spam bots or spam servers? Everyone is saying regulate signups for servers but anyone can spin up a Lemmy server and spam with thousands of accounts until they are defedarated. Then 5 minutes later do it again with a new server. It’s not hard to setup a Lemmy server.
I actually think this is a non-issue , sure it will be a pain for a while but the decentralized model will easily adapt to this IMO. Its not like reddit was immune from bots eh.
An example is how obviously you can spot the bad actors here. I do not think is will be any more challenging indeed I think it will be easier to counter
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You mean a federation?
Yeah, a nice feature of federation is that real communities can adjust their sign-up processes to minimize bot sign-ups, and while determined botfarms can spin up their own servers, that leads to pretty much the least controversial use case for admins to block another server.
Mastodon’s run into similar issues in the past with both bots and scrapers and typically no one has any issue with admins there defederating and entirely blocking those servers.
Yeah, malicious instances can always be defederated and cleaned from the caches.
Until they startblockingg new servers that are harmless
Which is why it’s great that the bottom of every single page, on every single lemmy instance, there’s a button to take you to the modlog. It shows what servers have been defederated and when. So if the person running your instance is being too heavy-handed with it, you can take your account and move to a different instance.
So, it’s still a bit of a non-issue.