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Please. Captcha by default. Email domain filters. Auto-block federation from servers that don't respect. By default. Urgent.
And yes, to refute some comments, this publication is being upvoted by bots. A single computer was needed, not "thousands of dollars" spent.
Just saw a WAVE of bot art flow down the "Top New" feed. It then promptly stopped. And then when I reloaded the page, it was gone. So I think it's working...
Email domain filters
Okay, gmail should definitely be blacklisted, because it's extremely easy to abuse. Microsoft email domains too. What domains should be allowed then?
Email domain filtering makes no sense when it is easy enough to just set up your own email server for bots. It will only hinder legit users and low level bad actors, not the real threat of major bot farms.
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['Man vs. Giant' - Dramatic artwork depicting 'Yhorm the Giant' from 'Dark Souls 3' towering over the protagonist from 'Dark Souls 3', 'Ashen One'. The giant figure holds a massive sword that is planted in the ground with both hands, while the comparitively tiny 'Ashen One' holds a regular sized sword in his right hand and adopts a fighting stance. Text placed over the stomach of the giant character, and over the smaller protagonist figure, reads as follows]
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We need a distributed decentralized curated whitelist that new servers will apply for and hopefully get a quick week max response after some kind of precisely defined anti spam/bot audit. Also then periodic checks of existing servers.
Like crypto has transaction ledger confirmed some kind of notabot confirmation ledger
Lmao are you the guy from yesterday?
Whats the purpose of these bots?
Spam and vote manipulation are the two biggest concerns.___
Votes are visible to the world, unlike with Reddit, so that'll be vulnerable to data analysis on behavior.