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 There's nothing stopping a big #Mastodon server from being sold to some horrible #billionaire. There's nothing stopping #corporate marketers from creating a bunch of bot accounts and making some lame hashtag trend. The ability to change #servers is great tho 3 comments
There's nothing stopping a server admin from allowing marketers to buy accounts or ads. Money seeps into and corrupts everything and it will happen here too. Not that vigilance wont be useful. Not that the ability to switch servers won't be useful. @BernieWonIowa @anildash Still a hashtags can't trend on other servers unless it's not approved by their server admin. What trends on our server are decided by our admin and moderators and it doesn't matter where it's coming from and how popular it is, we look into the trend individually before accepting it. So from my understanding, what you are saying is only applicable for individual servers, not the fediverse |
Gregory's Server
@BernieWonIowa @anildash Can you please teach me how can a marketer do it unless they are not part of the admin or moderation team on the bigger platform?
I run several #servers and can spin up any kind of bot -- need to understand how the spamming on my servers via bot can get a hashtag trend in the #fediverse.