I’m pretty sure they were complicit in this and were not really trying to fight it.
petunia@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Speaking from experience, they could fix their spam and abuse woes very easily by just closing new signups or restricting it in some way. Simplest would be invite-only (built-in feature of Mastodon), or restrict the signups page based on IP range whitelist/blacklist.
Furball@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Solarius@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Actual CSAM on pawoo wasn’t even a problem. It was just spam from feds or scammers.
petunia@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Absolutely brain-dead speculation based on literally nothing. Complicit in what??? The current owner is a very public figure, so they gain nothing and have everything to lose. It’s just pure incompetence and mismanagement.
ShittyKopper@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
you mean they should turn off the user-count-go-uppinator? but how would the fediverse grow like that??
(sorry i just have opinions on large instances)
eee@lemm.ee 1 year ago
The nature of a site like reddit (and lemmy and all other alternatives) means a large userbase is necessary. Not at the expense of CSAM, but also everyone trying to gatekeep lemmy doesn’t realise that welltdie a slow death unless the fediverse grows by at least 10-20x.
themusicman@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Doesn’t have to be all on one instance though. Instances shouldn’t grow beyond what they can admin/moderate
Comment105@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I swear, Lemmy users act like they are completely in favor of an instance of 40 users and a submission every other week. Seeing scale as inherently bad.
Lemmy will fucking roll over and die within the year.