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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

there are multiple ways evil can behave on lemmy:

trolling, it is annoying, if 25% of all posts are troll posts, the site can be annoying to use.
- content voting systems can mitigate this tho, but bots will eventually find a way to game this?
the difference between trolling and spamming (imo): trolls type in their message with a physical keyboard. Spammers use bots to automate trolling

spamming, creates huge load on storage capacity of the server owner, not good if you host for ~~free~~
- spam can be hard to detect in the age of chatgpt LLMs in general, because normal spam would be detected by how random it is. for example

adfjakjdfkl would be easily detected as spam

spamming huge amounts of text is still better than spammers creating huge amounts of video and photographs
proof of work algorithms can mitigate this issue somewhat, tho this also makes performance worse for everyone

any other thoughts on proof of work, or how evil doers can behave on social media sides?