A majority of "growth" in the fediverse is spam
Which is why it's crucial that we nip this in the bud sooner rather than later
Instagram has a bad reputation for spam bots in replies and DMs
Unchecked spam can inflate stats and give the impression of growth
It's somewhat curious that Pixelfed is the only #fediverse platform that seems to proactively detect and reject spam to this degree
It makes you wonder 🤔
https://pixelfed.blog/p/2023/feature/autospam-and-naive-bayes-the-grandfather-of-spam-filters-still-making-waves
#pixelfed #spam #autospam
dansup /
npub1xs…7q6he
2024-05-23 09:47:56
Author Public Key
npub1xsvg2xkadm588z2khnywdfqsmv73rskhy96svdcr3d6zx8yl39xsq7q6hePublished at
2024-05-23 09:47:56Event JSON
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