• AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        Which is a shame, because in theory it seems like creating a self-hosted instance for your personal account has a lot of advantages (not worrying about the host doing something screwy or abandoning the instance, having full control over who you federate with, being able to customize the interface, etc.)

        But that may end up going the way of self-hosted email servers, where differentiating yourself from a spam server becomes impossible and everyone ends up on the equivalent of gmail.

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      2 years ago

      I don’t see how that could be done, the bot owners can always just spin up their own new instance where they control sign up requirements.

      Other instances can then defederate from the spam instance but they can quickly spin up a new one.

      Gonna be interesting to see how it’s solved.

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          The fediverse is decentralized, anyone can start their own lemmy/kbin/mastodon/whatever server and make an account they just approve themselves.

          If you mean some kind of global approval then that destroys the whole point of the fediverse.