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[-] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 2 points 2 months ago

Nah, it works for now because no one really tries to spam lemmy. If it gets popular enough companies will pay bot farms to post here and admins want be able to keep up with moderation. Bots will simply join the biggest instances. The only solution would be to defederate the main instances and have everyone pretty much host their own server.

[-] carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

look at Mastodon and it’s practically what’s happening there. bot farms don’t even bother setting up their own servers, they just go to mastodon.social (by far the largest instance) and bot from there. and because .social refuses to have manual approval for each account, and many instances don’t want to defenerate from where almost everyone is, the problem keeps happening…

[-] groet@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago

And if everybody hosts their own server, than so will the advertisers and everybody will have to defederate then individually making the problem of moderation even worse.

[-] snooggums@piefed.world 2 points 2 months ago

When it gets bad enough the default will switch from blacklists to whitelists and the user base will consolidate to fewer and fewer popular instances that are able to address the spam.

[-] groet@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago

Bots will simply join the biggest instances. The only solution would be to defederate the main instances and have everyone pretty much host their own server.

the user base will consolidate to fewer and fewer popular instances that are able to address the spam.

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