I’ve been on the Fediverse since 2016, and I still get a little mixed up by how things work.

  • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    The possible problem with that is someone will eventually write a script that starts up new instances and then runs spambots on them. It’s what happened with email. I think you can still self-host an email server, though, it’s just a matter of running it well and communicating with the people that run blacklists if you get on one.

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      1 year ago

      eventually write a script that starts up new instances and then runs spambots on them.

      Spammers wouldn’t even have to run Lemmy to spam, as they could have a spamming script that uses ActivityPub directly. I really hope that doesn’t become widespread…

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        1 year ago

        It definitely will, if it makes financial sense. Spamming and cybercrime is a highly competitive market with low barriers to entry.