I’m pretty sure they were complicit in this and were not really trying to fight it.
petunia@lemmy.world 11 months 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 11 months ago
Solarius@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
Actual CSAM on pawoo wasn’t even a problem. It was just spam from feds or scammers.
petunia@lemmy.world 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago
Doesn’t have to be all on one instance though. Instances shouldn’t grow beyond what they can admin/moderate
Comment105@lemm.ee 11 months 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.