There is a bunch of technical issues it highlights, which is that Fediverse is very open to abuse at present. There’s no spam filtering at all. It’s like email from 1996. It’s wide open to abuse.
IMHO Mastodon admins should enable CAPTCHA for registration - it’s supported out of the box - if they run open sign ups.
Ideally Mastodon would add easy install third party plugins (a la Wordpress etc) so people could develop optional plugins for anti-spam and anti-malware.
Kevin Beaumont /
npub176…fkwlw
2024-02-17 19:24:29
in reply to nevent1q…2v4g
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2024-02-17 19:24:29Event JSON
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