I am asking because I don’t want to participate in a spam farm.
I noticed this with 2 accounts:
- Townflex, @stermy4u@lemmy.world ;
- The CyberSec Guru, @UnLocoPoco@lemmy.world .
Why is no one acting pro-actively, to prevent the platform from turning bad? Why did no mod or admin notice this?
The fediverse is, by intention, not controlled by any particular person or entity. It is not a “platform”. So the answer is never.
But it’s actually moderated by admins, mods and to some extent the software developers of the Fediverse, if they wanted to.
There are many different communities and servers with many different mods and admins, and they all have independent thoughts on what should and shouldn’t be allowed.
Developers don’t control content.
Preach! And a stern look at the Tesseract dev.
As I said, the developers can implement moderation software solution.
Easiest example would be if they wanted to mark sus spam accounts, they could mark accounts that posted more than 20 link posts with >40% from the same site as spam accounts, with clear mark for every user to see.
The implementation might need time and resources, but it’s possible.
The fediverse doesn’t like that kind of approach from devs. Both Piefed and Tesseract got criticized heavily over doing stuff like that.
You must not be aware of the very recent Tesseract drama.
Edit: better link, take 2.
Ooh I made the list!