Welcome to today’s daily kōrero! Sorry it’s so late.

It doesn’t have to be the mods making the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!

Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, your weekend, what you have planned for the week, etc.

So how’s it going?

  • @DaveMAEnglish
    3•1 year ago

    I happened to open Lemmy for the first time this weekend while the server was down. I got a bit worried before I headed over to the chat and saw you were onto it.

    Not just onto it, I caused it!

    It seems like keeping bots away is going to be one of the big struggles for Lemmy. At least for the time being. Though to be fair, it seems like a problem for all social media. At least Lemmy isn’t profiting off the controversy stirred up by a lot of them.

    Lemmy/Fediverse has one disadvantage here. Facebook can control their bots by putting account creation controls in place. But spammers in Lemmy can spin up their own instance and then create loads of accounts, and start commenting on other instances. Then when enough instances block them, spin up a new one.

    We can’t stop that from happening, and if we block new instances until they prove they aren’t spammers then that’s a huge blocker for the uptake of the Fediverse. I’ve seen other (not large) instances looking at trust calculations, but this is still a barrier to people being able to start a new instance. I don’t have any solutions but I hope we find one.