Was gonna make a poll “What do you think about the fediverse” 😏
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I remember maybe 10 or so years ago i was wondering how easy it is to rake up comment karma. And by easy i mean low effort. I went to /r/awww or some other “wholesome” subreddit and just spammed :) Somehow it got upvoted like crazy.
This sort of thing will inevitably come to lemmy in some form, as it becomes popular and spam becomes a bigger problem. I’m hoping we’ll have more elegant solutions by then, so let’s see
We already have: Manually-approved applications
Lemmy doesn’t count karma or keep track of it though. Where as reddit does, and why bots are prevalent
Totally reasonable moderation policy tbh
Only if done on a small scale. When it becomes the norm, and all the subreddits are doing it, then it becomes impossible to start a new account and build up the necessary karma to meet these thresholds.
Worse, it’s a limit easily bypassed by bots. Spammers can start accounts and just let them sit on a shelf for a year prior to using them. They can farm karma by just reposting stolen content.
Oh, and of course, the real spammers simply buy up existing accounts with years of history to them and turn them into subtle spam bots.
This sort of thing is supposed to discourage the bots that reddit is plagued with.
sure isnt stopping russian troll bots, and israeli ones, and plus the right winger ones too. in any case, reddit will be instantly noticeably quiet if they really cracked down on these propaganda bots.
“Only our bots are allowed”
And you can look how well it’s doing the job.
