• Poutinetown@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    The article says it’s to limit spam. I don’t feel platforms like Lemmy (or the other platform) are particularly spammy though. On the other hand I get a lot more spam on Whatsapp, even though it’s phone number bound.

    Signal is pretty good in terms of limited spam, but I’m curious about the impact if they A/B test the removal and see how much spam would arise. Obviously that could only be implemented after they remove the need to add contact via phone number.

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      1 year ago

      You are correct my friend, because Lemmy is for smart people like us. And a smart person like you could easily make 10k per month on the side.
      With just a small initial investment you could create a huge passive income in no time.
      Just go to shadyscamspam.com and become your own boss.

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      1 year ago

      If more people joined Lemmy you’d see the amount of spam this place would get. Now it’s only a bunch of nerds who will quickly report any spammy activity. It’s a small “friendly” community for now.

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      1 year ago

      Niche communities don’t deal with spam.

      But the moment it’s big enough Lemmy will be rife with spammers and you’ll need full time moderation tools.

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      1 year ago

      If you go to Reddit which is more popular for bots certain subs are completely filled with spam and votebots. r/worldnews is like a giant circle of pro IDF bots jerking eachother off. LSF became a shitshow too.

    • skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 year ago

      plenty of instances have email verification and or captcha, and those that don’t get defederated (sometimes) (this already happened)