Mx Amber Alex (she/it) on Nostr: I've spoken at length over my belief that the fediverse is at a size where it can't ...

I've spoken at length over my belief that the fediverse is at a size where it can't survive without some sort of automated or semi-automated moderation tools (https://eldritch.cafe/@amberage/tagged/MastoMod).

It's basically email: tons of providers (instances) that send messages to each other (posts, follows, etc), and there is no guaranteed standard of moderation for all of them. Malicious actors can spin up their own or abuse existing ones.

We've seen that in the recent spam waves, i.e. "kuroneko" and the weekly spam waves from mastodon.social.

That is, in the long run, more than volunteers can handle. So there needs to be some automated solution to detect and contain spam.

The API does not support that at present.

It has to.

#MastoMod #MastoDev