Two solutions that I see:
- Mods and/or admins need to be notified when a post has a lot of upvotes from accounts on the same instance.
- Generalize whitelists and requests to federate from new instances.
this post was submitted on 09 Jul 2023
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What is the definition of a "fake account"?
In this context it would be an account with the sole purpose of boosting the visible popularity of a post or comment.
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@koper@feddit.nl @fediverse@lemmy.ml oh yeah nothing from servers in terms of numbers can really be trusted
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If we stop spam accounts from brand new or low usage servers those could both be easily mailed (emulated activity, pre-create instances and let them marinate)
I don't know much about how making new instances works, but could someone create instances in large qualities with smaller populations with the goal of giving human moderators too much work to defederate them all?
There are legitimate reasons for creating a “low-usage” server to host your personal account, so you have full control over federating etc.
If we start assuming all small instances are spam by default, we’ll end up like email now—where it’s practically impossible for small sites to run their own mail servers without getting a corporate stamp of approval from Google.
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Reddit had/has the same problem. It's just that federation makes it way more obvious on the threadiverse.