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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/123857

This is my current attempt at preparing to counter the spam waves that will be appearing as the fediverse becomes more and more popular.

It involves the creation of whitelists based on a chain of trust between instances with easy ways to add and remove into it with few overheads.

Let me know what you think and if you're interested, please do register your instance at https://overctrl.dbzer0.com.

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[–] Rulasmur@mhl.onl 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've only recently setup my own lemmy instance, to test new stuff, fix a few things, whatever. Something like this would prevent me from federating with the content I want to see, and I'd have to go try and be buddies with a trusted instance admin to get endorsed?

I think this may be something we want to discuss more as a community, and see what better solutions might be out there

[–] interolivary@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Totally unlimited federation doesn't work, just look at what happened with email. You have to jump through a lot of hoops to set up a server because of spam protection

[–] Rulasmur@mhl.onl 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And I get that, but I feel like there might be better options than an old boys club that requires endorsement to get in. For instance, maybe levels of trust? a newly federated instance gets rate limited or something, so that it can't suddenly start spamming 1000s of posts or whatever

[–] interolivary@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Oh yeah, there's probably middle ground there somewhere, although I'm not entirely sure some sort of "web of trust" model is avoidable