So far Lemmy is vibing. Everyone here is excited and optimistic and willing to put up with a few rough spots to be part of something.

When the Eternal September comes, which it will, how does a Lemmy instance deal with bad actors?

  • ComplexLotus@lemmy.world
    191·
    1 year ago

    there are multiple ways evil can behave on lemmy:

    trolling

    • trolling, it is annoying, if 25% of all posts are troll posts, the site can be annoying to use.
      • content voting systems can mitigate this tho, but bots will eventually find a way to game this?
    • the difference between trolling and spamming (imo): trolls type in their message with a physical keyboard. Spammers use bots to automate trolling

    (Bot) Spamming / automated troll farms

    • spamming, creates huge load on storage capacity of the server owner, not good if you host for free
      • spam can be hard to detect in the age of chatgpt LLMs in general, because normal spam would be detected by how random it is. for example

    adfjakjdfkl would be easily detected as spam

    • spamming huge amounts of text is still better than spammers creating huge amounts of video and photographs
    • proof of work algorithms can mitigate this issue somewhat, tho this also makes performance worse for everyone

    any other thoughts on proof of work, or how evil doers can behave on social media sides?

    • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net
      2·
      1 year ago

      I don’t have any other suggestions, I just wanted to say that your comment is officially the nicest formatted comment I’ve seen on Lemmy thus far.

      I know it’s just standard markdown stuff and it’s super common and will become more common on here as userbases build, I just enjoy the new platform mini milestones