It is very reminiscent of the trolls in the earlier web.
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 1 year ago
So, from memory there has been:
This recent attack Regular DDOS attacks Frequent attempts to spam community creation That one time the instance got hacked and set to redirect to shock sites Am I missing anything?
This seems like more than just a few trolls. Maybe someone really doesn’t want to see user-owned social media take off.
Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 1 year ago
I see where you’re going with this, but no, people really are just absolutely horrible. The fact is that with other social media they’re just already very set up in managing this so we never see it. Lemmy wants to be open, this is the flipside of that openness.
kromem@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s generally easy to crap on what’s ‘bad’ about big players, while underestimating or undervaluing what they are doing right for product market fit.
A company like Meta puts hundreds of people in foreign nations through PTSD causing hell in order to moderate and keep clean their own networks.
While I hope that’s not the solution that a community driven effort ends up with, it shows the breadth of the problems that can crop up with the product as it grows.
I think the community will overcome these issues and grow beyond it, but jerks trying to ruin things for everyone will always exist, and will always need to be protected against.
To say nothing for the far worse sorts behind the production and more typical distribution of such material, whom Lemmy will also likely eventually need to deal with more and more as the platform grows.
It’s going to take time, and I wouldn’t be surprised if the only way a federated social network eventually can exist is within onion routing or something, as at a certain point the difference in resources to protect against content litigation between a Meta and someone hosting a Lemmy server is impossible to equalize, and the privacy of hosts may need to be front and center.
Zeth0s@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The solution in this case is absolutely ai filters. Unfortunately you want find many people willing to build robust model for that. Because they’d be those getting the ptsd you mention.