Gregory's Server
hey, fellow #fediadmins, how many spambots from mastodon.social have you encountered at this point? Just wondering how many people actually consider defederating from it due to its lack of moderation
yes, I know, defederating from literally the largest instance makes no sense, but I don’t think we would actually miss that much: most likely people you actually care about already moved from mastosoc, so it won’t really hurt
plus, it would reduce load to your instance since you won’t have to process so many updates, most of which are useless anyways
thoughts?
@hkc
Between 5 and 10.
By the way these bots exists are not because of "lack of moderation".
You can't moderate something you can't see until users reported it to you. And most of the bots were sending a SMALL batch of DM's until going offline. It's not that one account was sending thousands of messages and nobody took care of that.
Also mastodon doesn't have very good anti-spam measures. So blaming moderation team of any instance (even mastodon.social) for that is quite shortsighted.
@hkc
Between 5 and 10.
By the way these bots exists are not because of "lack of moderation".
You can't moderate something you can't see until users reported it to you. And most of the bots were sending a SMALL batch of DM's until going offline. It's not that one account was sending thousands of messages and nobody took care of that.