I am asking because I don’t want to participate in a spam farm.
I noticed this with 2 accounts:
- Townflex, @stermy4u@lemmy.world ;
- The CyberSec Guru, @UnLocoPoco@lemmy.world .
Why is no one acting pro-actively, to prevent the platform from turning bad? Why did no mod or admin notice this?
and do what? only allow links to sanctioned websites?
before the web turned into the same 5 websites, it was perfectly normal to link to your own stuff. That’s basically why the web grew into what it became.
As long as people aren’t scamming and spamming, let them
A lot of the time this is just AI-generated trash, not an actual person linking to their stuff. They are both scammers and spammers.
Townflex is AI plagiarism repackaging trending stories to siphon clicks.
I haven’t deep dived into the cybersecguru but there isn’t a single named human being associated with that site. One “person” claims to have written maybe 15000 words of journalism in the last 24 hours and doesn’t want credit. This is from their About page:
My name is The CyberSec Guru, and I’m the founder of The CyberSec Guru. I’ve been fascinated by technology and online security since my High School days.
Again, I haven’t spent a lot of time looking, but this is probably AI slop.
The fediverse is, by intention, not controlled by any particular person or entity. It is not a “platform”. So the answer is never.
But it’s actually moderated by admins, mods and to some extent the software developers of the Fediverse, if they wanted to.
There are many different communities and servers with many different mods and admins, and they all have independent thoughts on what should and shouldn’t be allowed.
Developers don’t control content.
Developers don’t control content.
As I said, the developers can implement moderation software solution.
Easiest example would be if they wanted to mark sus spam accounts, they could mark accounts that posted more than 20 link posts with >40% from the same site as spam accounts, with clear mark for every user to see.
The implementation might need time and resources, but it’s possible.
