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This spammer created multiple accounts on various Lemmy instances to post self advertisements. How do we combat this? (media.kbin.social)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/fediverse@kbin.social
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[–] 6 points 3 years ago (2 children)

You miss-represent the fediverse. Users aren't locked in. If someone buys one instance and you don't like it, you move. You still have all the same access, all the same content. An instance is only an access point, in many ways it is like an ISP, and people jump service providers all the time.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    You miss-represent the fediverse. Users aren't locked in. If someone buys one instance and you don't like it, you move.

    Maybe you will but people in their majority won't do that. It's too much operations. Also they might not even be aware of the transfer. Plus if an instance offers good services there might be a technological price to pay for leaving, like leaving instagram. All instances are not equal, specially if there are more interfaces in preparation.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    What services can they offer that aren't elsewhere? If it's unique, it won't actually be that effective. It can only be scoped to the instance.

    Instagram isn't a comparison because it works entirely differently. By even saying "like Instagram" belies a lack of understanding of the topic.

    It's true all instances are not equal. But your extension theory is not very strong. Nor is your instance-for-sale concept. They gain nothing from buying an instance. Users don't matter. They're just as reachable as another federated instance.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    They gain nothing from buying an instance. Users don't matter. They're just as reachable as another federated instance.

    ok, cool.

    remember how the lemmy.ml admin asked that people join other instances.

    lemmy.ml is overloaded, use other instances instead

    People want to be with people, if you don't get that then you don't get social networks.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    The admin was trying to get people to understand how federation works though. Most of my interactions are on other instances. That you're even discussing another instance is the admin's whole point of how your perspective is outdated. You don't need to join populated instances. You could literally setup your own and still access other people. You can actually reach more people from an unknown instance than very large ones. Many instances ban large ones due to large ones having less moderation. If you wanted to be real insidious, a corp could create its own instance and just spread posts/upvotes/etc elsewhere on other instances. As long as they don't push too hard, it would go unnoticed.

    You're entirely misunderstanding the lemmy.ml admin. Sure people might flock to large instances out of instinct, but it's misguided. The admin was trying to show that user count isn't the metric you want to look at for an instance.

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