@aral This is all too manual/complex to be sustainable of course, the spammers will win eventually. I hope eventually this will be something we can automate in #mastodon with servers subscribing to someone we trust to keep such a #blocklist up-to-date in real time.
Then again, I fear we’d slide into the same situation as email, where all-powerful blocklist companies control the flow of everything, and if someone puts you into one of those lists, enjoy the months of fighting it will take to get off them (if you can).
Anyone know some existing middle-ground solution/proposal that could work for collaboratively inoculating against spam in the #fediverse?
@martin@aral creating a whitelist mode federation features would be the best i guess. Only connecting with trusted fedi server that is moderated and maintained. Since a lot of spam coming from the unmaintained and unmoderated open registration server.
@sandycorzeta@martin I believe it’s about time this conservation was had for a number of reasons. There’s a good argument to be had for moderation and safety purposes that federation should be opt-in, not opt-out.
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