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what's the asshole mitigation plan? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by bobaduk@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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So far Lemmy is vibing. Everyone here is excited and optimistic and willing to put up with a few rough spots to be part of something.

When the Eternal September comes, which it will, how does a Lemmy instance deal with bad actors?

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[-] CanadaPlus 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Email servers work the same way. So far there's still one big email "community", while spamserver.ng is just pretty universally blocked. I think that's strong evidence the strategy works.

Now, a much more relevant question is how do you run your instance.

[-] coderofhonor@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Well, a huge caveat to that is that there are world class Researchers who create constantly adapting intelligent spam filters to keep spam out of inboxes. Maybe the fediverse will have something like that someday! Who knows!

[-] CanadaPlus 1 points 1 year ago

I imagine a lot of it could just be ported over.

[-] foggenbooty@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I think your underestimating how real the battle against spam still is in the email space. If you use Gmail you've got a huge company doing the work for you. If you work in IT and run a corporate mail server you'll see that we pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for anti-spam/phishing filtering.

Bot spam is totally separate and unfortunately I don't see how you'd be able to port the work over.