Discussion on Usenet got hit pretty hard by spam. One of the major benefits of Reddit, in my view, was that it was significantly less-impacted.
The Threadiverse consists of moderated communities.
I think that that is gonna have a major impact on spam, same way that it did on Reddit.
I don’t use any other Fediverse system on a regular basis, so I don’t really have a great feel for them. I don’t know how Twitter deals with spam or whether Mastodon does or can use the same approach.
Usenet?
Discussion on Usenet got hit pretty hard by spam. One of the major benefits of Reddit, in my view, was that it was significantly less-impacted.
The Threadiverse consists of moderated communities.
I think that that is gonna have a major impact on spam, same way that it did on Reddit.
I don’t use any other Fediverse system on a regular basis, so I don’t really have a great feel for them. I don’t know how Twitter deals with spam or whether Mastodon does or can use the same approach.