When it gets bad enough the default will switch from blacklists to whitelists and the user base will consolidate to fewer and fewer popular instances that are able to address the spam.
And if everybody hosts their own server, than so will the advertisers and everybody will have to defederate then individually making the problem of moderation even worse.
snooggums@piefed.world 4 months ago
groet@feddit.org 4 months ago
Bots will simply join the biggest instances. The only solution would be to defederate the main instances and have everyone pretty much host their own server.
the user base will consolidate to fewer and fewer popular instances that are able to address the spam.
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ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 4 months ago
But hosting servers cost real money so creating thousands of them may not be cost effective for spammers. Paywalls are the best defense against spammers. Of course this is all hypothetical. Self hosting will never be mainstream. Or maybe? 🤔
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
No way, because posting on already-established corpo platforms is much less of a barrier to entry.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 4 months ago
What if we make self hosting super easy? Like select the services you want to host, choose a domain, pay and bam, you’ve got your self hosted instance of lemmy/mastodon/pixelfed and so on?
tal@lemmy.today 4 months ago
There is at least one company that does provide managed Lemmy services (which makes sense, since a lot of people might want to run their own instance, but don’t want to deal with security and updates and setting up x.509 certs and stuff).
kagis
Might be elest.io that I’m remembering.
discuss.jacen.moe/post/862
Looks like there’s another one at least:
www.knthost.com/lemmy
Those are the ones that come up in a search. They’re probably hoping that the Threadiverse will grow; enough instances could make writing scripts and whatever pretty worthwhile.