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dan@upvote.au 4 days agothe fediverse seems to be far more resilient against bots, since we can defederate from an instance that gets taken over,
It’s very easy to spin up a new instance though, so I’m surprised there’s not a lot of spam. AFAIK most servers still federate with any new servers by default. That’s important to ensure equal treatment and that new servers are not disadvantaged, but it can also have issues.
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 4 days ago
The Fediseer project from @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com helps prevent bot farms from proliferating, as new servers require an endorsement from an already trusted instance to become ‘legit’. And they can be marked as untrustworthy as well, causing them to be defederated fairly quickly, limiting its reach.
We also have a MUCH higher moderator to user ratio compared to corpo sites, with a range between 100 to 2,500 users per mod depending on instance, Vs. 250,000 users per mod on sites like twitter, so we can more adequately spot and deal with spam on the network.
dan@upvote.au 4 days ago
Thanks for the info! I didn’t know about the Fediseer project - I don’t think it existed when I created my Mastodon and Lemmy servers.
db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
It’s been out for the past year. It’s all word of mouth but a lot of instances have fediseer badges to draw attention to it.
dan@upvote.au 3 days ago
Thanks for maintaining it! I signed up, now I just need to see if anyone’s willing to guarantee my single-user instance.