Curious if this will ever become a concept to help put a stop to spam/bots.

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      1 year ago

      Lemmy is federated. You can set up your own instance, create 100 spam bots, and go spam other instances. No account approval required.

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          1 year ago

          Yes, all 1000 instances can individually have their admins simply defederate.

          Then the spammers make a new instance in 10 mins and start again.

          The problem that karma attempts to solve is that you stop spammers before they can spam, not after.

          I’m an instance admin, spam is a massive challenge at the moment and lemmy is still small. We need better tools before it grows too much.