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• JackAttack@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Unfortunately, I say yes. And hear me out first please.

  The Fediverse in my eyes should be free. Free to have instances for everyone, including those we disagree with. Because in my opinion, the right to say and think what we want is very important (absolute free speech). And unfortunately, i think that means everyone should be allowed to say what they want. HOWEVER, free speech does not mean free of consequences. The option of federating with those groups or not is up to each community and fortunately I think many would not be okay with including them.

  I’m always open to hearing input as these are personal thoughts so by all means add to or let me know the errors in my thinking. Thanks!

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  • foggenbooty@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Current platforms like Lemmy are NOT ready for massive amounts of users. They have very poor moderation controls, no effective strategy to combat bots, and no money to pay people for it.

    The only reason Lemmy is usable right now is because it has nerdy people using it in good faith. If it were to gain critical mass it would collapse under the deluge of trolls and bots.

    It’s a quaint little place, and I like it for being that.

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    • Marand@feddit.dk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m actually not sure how federated lemmy hasn’t already been destroyed. Wouldn’t it just take one bad actor to start spamming all the other instances with nonsence? If you deferate with the instance the bots are coming from they can just open another, right? Like a DDOS attack

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      • SorteKanin@feddit.dk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Wouldn’t it just take one bad actor to start spamming all the other instances with nonsence?

        In principle yes, one bad actor could start spamming a lot. But they usually get banned pretty quickly.

        If you deferate with the instance the bots are coming from they can just open another, right? Like a DDOS attack

        Well, you’d need a new domain so at least you’re forcing the spammer to spend money on a new domain, which probably breaks most of these attempts. Also if the spammers are really bad or posting illegal stuff and they’re registering domains, you could maybe report them to their domain registrar and possibly get them to shut them out or maybe even get law enforcement involved to figure out who registered the domains.

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