Spam may be annoying to users, but fediverse developers are acutely aware of how they can inflate user counts and give the impression of a more active ecosystem.

Growth hacking still exists in the fediverse, like the internet at large.

The important thing to remember is how focused these fedi platforms are on solving this, I know @pixelfed is dedicated and set the gold standard for spam detection in the #fediverse 😉

https://pixelfed.blog/p/2023/feature/autospam-and-naive-bayes-the-grandfather-of-spam-filters-still-making-waves