Excited yet worried about future of Lemmy
Excited yet worried about future of Lemmy
I know probably not the perfect place to post this but want to get the discussion started and don’t know enough to be scared or not: because of the decentralization of Lemmy, is it extremely vulnerable to malicious/ad bots, astroturfing, spam and such?
Not sure if you were alive when we all moved from MySpace to Facebook but it is supposed to be exciting and scary, baby. All the best things in life are.
Or when Digg leadership made utterly boneheaded decisions that wrecked the way users interacted with the platform and drove everyone to: Reddit.
I owned MySpace. I am Tom. I have no friends now :’(
If an instance is not willing to work on these issues, other instances can opt to defederate the offending instance.
Yeah, haven't seen it yet, but it's coming with the growth. We'll probably see a fragmented network of federations.
The decentralized nature is one of the aspects that prevents this kind of behavior, because it favors small instances/servers that are easier to moderate. And even if you are in an instance that has some moderation problems, you can always move to another one better moderated and still be able to consume the same content.
The instance you are on is able to take drastic measures. I heard that’s what behaw did. They defederated while they get their moderation back in order.
The community has complete control, and has the ability to cut off other parts of the community that isn’t working.