On: Our experience with the Fediverse, and why we left

[rbanffy]

I really like NNTP, but spam was becoming a huge problem in the Usenet and its nature makes it harder to assert the identity of a poster.

[sdenton4 → rbanffy]

I mean, if people want to give out helpful information about gland enlargement alongside links to where supplements can be purchased for the astonishingly low price of $12 a pill, who are we to try to stop them? Provide an unfiltered free speech platform and the stronger ideas will win, right?

[coderaptor → sdenton4]

Just provide more effective tools allowing users to tune their own feeds.

[vkou → coderaptor]

With a profit or ideological motive, I can spam you, and shout over all meaningful communication much faster than you can block me.

[jjoonathan → sdenton4]

Yeah, and the idea of a spam filter won.

[saurik → jjoonathan]

Spam filters can be opt-in. Spam filters can be federated. Spam filters can be local. It simply isn't true that decentralized censorship resistant systems fundamentally require users to be inundated with spam.

[jjoonathan → saurik]

I wish that were the case.