Saagar Jha

Nobody really want to admit it but the reason this platform hasn’t had to deal with spam is not because it was designed on top of a genius-level federated protocol and only populated by nice people but because nothing here was worth targeting with abuse
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Jordan

(replying to Saagar Jha)

@saagar I don’t know what this is specifically prompted by but I have a problem with not referring to well-documented racist harassment of Black Mastodon users as “abuse”. Maybe the Fediverse didn’t have a spam problem until recently but it has had years and years of discussions about moderation.

JamesGecko

(replying to Jordan)

@jrose @saagar Fediverse suddenly started getting exponentially more spam within the last day or so. Thread: cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog

Saagar Jha

(replying to JamesGecko)
@jamesgecko @jrose Yeah, that. Marginalized people already knew that ActivityPub supports all sorts of harassment, it’s just that this is the first experience that everyone else is being sent content they don’t want

Saagar Jha

(replying to Saagar Jha)
Look, I don’t want to sit around and be snarky while very tired people run around trying to clean up, but I do hope that next time we don’t delude ourselves into thinking that combating spam isn’t a hard social (as opposed to technical!) problem