Recently I've started running my own lemmy instance, as part of my decoupling from Reddit, due to them speed-running enshittification. The instance has been growing nicely and holding up very well indeed. but there's dark clouds forming on the horizon, as more of more of the early adopters and people with principles are leaving that [...]

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/123857

This is my current attempt at preparing to counter the spam waves that will be appearing as the fediverse becomes more and more popular.

It involves the creation of whitelists based on a chain of trust between instances with easy ways to add and remove into it with few overheads.

Let me know what you think and if you’re interested, please do register your instance at https://overctrl.dbzer0.com.

  • interolivary@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Oh yeah, there’s probably middle ground there somewhere, although I’m not entirely sure some sort of “web of trust” model is avoidable