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Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive (signal.org)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (5 children)

The article says it's to limit spam. I don't feel platforms like Lemmy (or the other platform) are particularly spammy though. On the other hand I get a lot more spam on Whatsapp, even though it's phone number bound.

Signal is pretty good in terms of limited spam, but I'm curious about the impact if they A/B test the removal and see how much spam would arise. Obviously that could only be implemented after they remove the need to add contact via phone number.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago

If more people joined Lemmy you’d see the amount of spam this place would get. Now it’s only a bunch of nerds who will quickly report any spammy activity. It’s a small “friendly” community for now.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

Niche communities don't deal with spam.

But the moment it's big enough Lemmy will be rife with spammers and you'll need full time moderation tools.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you go to Reddit which is more popular for bots certain subs are completely filled with spam and votebots. r/worldnews is like a giant circle of pro IDF bots jerking eachother off. LSF became a shitshow too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

And that's with a fairly active mod team too. Imagine the spam if there were no controls.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

To be fair, the mods are complicit

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

plenty of instances have email verification and or captcha, and those that don't get defederated (sometimes) (this already happened)