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Thinking about multi-server aggregations and recommendation systems on decentralized online social networks like the #Fediverse.

Here we see an exploit: someone has created hundreds of fake accounts on different servers to spam the same tag.

#spam

in reply to Carl Colglazier

Yeah it has been a bad few days. Banning a bunch of servers.
in reply to Nathan Schneider

@ntnsndr Thanks to the server admins and mods handling this stuff. 🫡

It feels like at a technical level maybe new accounts shouldn't contribute to tending topics.

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