What’s important is that it’s possible if you don’t like any other instance. Maybe once Lemmy gets popular we’ll get commercial hosts offering to spin up a Lemmy instance the same way they offer WordPress.
It can’t be stopped this way but this is just some friction or increasing barrier to entry to discourage it. Most people are lazy and will just drop it as not worth the effort, and the most persistent will be annoying no matter what you do.
It won’t stop the people interested in doing Nass-manipulation of votes. There is no virtual difference between a bit that votes through Lemmy and a bot that votes through “pure” ActivityPub.
misk@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Does electoral college allow you to create a state whenever you feel like?
remon@ani.social 1 month ago
Hosting your own instance is not option for the majority of people.
misk@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
What’s important is that it’s possible if you don’t like any other instance. Maybe once Lemmy gets popular we’ll get commercial hosts offering to spin up a Lemmy instance the same way they offer WordPress.
DonaldJMusk@lemmy.today 1 month ago
There are examples of that already.
rglullis@communick.news 1 month ago
Creating a fake instance is easier to send out votes is cheaper and easier that you think. You need only one domain and a script.
misk@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
It can’t be stopped this way but this is just some friction or increasing barrier to entry to discourage it. Most people are lazy and will just drop it as not worth the effort, and the most persistent will be annoying no matter what you do.
rglullis@communick.news 1 month ago
It won’t stop the people interested in doing Nass-manipulation of votes. There is no virtual difference between a bit that votes through Lemmy and a bot that votes through “pure” ActivityPub.