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@formerlytomato There are multiple potential solutions to identify if an account is human:
- Most accounts don’t need to be there, and are force fed to people
- People can verify each other in a tree like fashion. If someone turns out to be recruiting bots, trim that branch and everyone verified under that person will disappear as well
- Recently: https://w3c.social/@timbl/113867689846939249
I didn't get into it in the article, but I've been thinking this is exactly what Fediverse platforms need. Instead of, say, Lemmy instances going to full lockdown every time there's a massive exodus, having an "invite link" system would be massively helpful for people easily getting their friends on the platform while also taking a load off mods. In conjunction with Fedi's dispersion across multiple instances, this'll help even further w/ load-balancing.
I think Discord is an example of this sort of system working in practice. Usually server mods are dealing w/ a volume low enough that banning bots are easy and it's easy to find out who invited who or cut off access to certain links.