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• snooggums@piefed.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨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 ⁨7⁩ ⁨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 ⁨8⁩ ⁨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 ⁨6⁩ ⁨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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    • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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?

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      • tal@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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

        Hey dear community, we just launched today our fully managed hosting of Lemmy

        We offer to do Deployment / Security / SSL / DNS / SMTP / Monitoring / Alerts / Backups / Automated updates / Handle migrations / Fully automated but with Human support :)

        We deploy each instance on a dedicated VM, and we provide full root access as well if you want to customize anything.

        Pricing start at $10/month (billed hourly, no contract)

        Looks like there’s another one at least:

        www.knthost.com/lemmy

        Get Lemmy hosting that works for you

        Only $11.25/mo. Risk-free with a 14-day money-back guarantee

        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.

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