Comment on Game marketing company takes down blog post bragging about how good it is at astroturfing Reddit after Reddit finds the post

• ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Nah, it works for now because no one really tries to spam lemmy. If it gets popular enough companies will pay bot farms to post here and admins want be able to keep up with moderation. 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.

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  • carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    look at Mastodon and it’s practically what’s happening there. bot farms don’t even bother setting up their own servers, they just go to mastodon.social (by far the largest instance) and bot from there. and because .social refuses to have manual approval for each account, the problem keeps happening.

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  • Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think to an extent yes, but not quite as bad as Reddit. Reddit admins will completely ignore reports about these. I think most Fediverse admins won’t ignore them.

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  • groet@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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    • snooggums@piefed.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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.

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      • groet@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

        You spin me right round, baby, right round 🎶🎶

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    • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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? 🤔

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      • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Self hosting will never be mainstream. Or maybe?

        No way, because posting on already-established corpo platforms is much less of a barrier to entry.

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