Apart from not being that interesting for now, the first line of defence for most is manually-approved sign ups, as far as I can tell.
When the Fediverse grows, I think that weeding out accounts that post slop will be the “easy” part; the hardest part will be to identify the silent bot accounts that do nothing but upvote.
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Short answer is active moderation and Anubis.
Apart from not being that interesting for now, the first line of defence for most is manually-approved sign ups, as far as I can tell.
When the Fediverse grows, I think that weeding out accounts that post slop will be the “easy” part; the hardest part will be to identify the silent bot accounts that do nothing but upvote.
I vaguely remember kbin allowing you to see who upvoted a particular post, so it might not be too difficult.
Tough to differentiate bots that only vote from human lurkers who only vote.
Yeah, you’d need some graph analysis. Bots will all simultaneously upvote certain things, and over time a pattern should emerge.
They don’t, but they are uninteresting for now