• AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 years ago

          Which is a shame, because in theory it seems like creating a self-hosted instance for your personal account has a lot of advantages (not worrying about the host doing something screwy or abandoning the instance, having full control over who you federate with, being able to customize the interface, etc.)

          But that may end up going the way of self-hosted email servers, where differentiating yourself from a spam server becomes impossible and everyone ends up on the equivalent of gmail.

            • Candelestine@lemmy.world
              2·
              2 years ago

              My (different person here) take is it’s probing behavior. Who benefits? Anti-reddit-protest trolls want to see this fail, and some could have the resources. Savvy criminal organizations see potential profit. Major tech companies see at least a research opportunity at minimal expense. White hats want to find and raise awareness of vulnerabilities.

              Only governments would really have no major motive beyond the usual surveillance of a social space. So I think the question should really be, who’s not doing it? Because if people aren’t wholesale fucking around yet, they’ll start very soon. It’s only the savvy or lucky that are aware of us still, but that will not be true for long. Snowball is rolling now, that’s pretty plain to see.

              I mean, we’re just a big and growing pile of consumers. What else do you do with those?

      • NotAPenguin@kbin.social
        427·
        2 years ago

        I don’t see how that could be done, the bot owners can always just spin up their own new instance where they control sign up requirements.

        Other instances can then defederate from the spam instance but they can quickly spin up a new one.

        Gonna be interesting to see how it’s solved.

          • NotAPenguin@kbin.social
            321·
            2 years ago

            The fediverse is decentralized, anyone can start their own lemmy/kbin/mastodon/whatever server and make an account they just approve themselves.

            If you mean some kind of global approval then that destroys the whole point of the fediverse.