This sounds like a moderation nightmare. Just create a troll account on one instance and now you can use it to login to every other instance and start spreading hate. When that instance bans you then you just move to the next instance? These instance admins don’t even see your signup application, they can’t stop you?
That is both a pro and con of the fediverse. I think instances (and even other users or communities perhaps) could store a reputation profile for each account and could have their own rules about where that user can post, how often they can post and their reach or visibility given their reputation.
New and low reputation accounts would have a very limited visibility, which would seriously impede a troll’s ability to open new accounts that have any value.
I guess it does seem like a complicated algorithm to figure out and I can see why this hasn’t been implemented yet.
that’s one of the plus points of using the fediverse I’ve heard? and I just did a quick google and at least mastodon software has that function.
Now that I’m here now, at least lemmy/mbin seem like it can’t yet. kind of. lemmy does allow to export and import some settings to move around instances.
nucleative put 2 different ideas in their comment actually.
The first idea was moveable accounts, just transferring like Mastodon does, which still gives the instance admin a chance to decline or ban you.
The 2nd idea was the account working on all instances at any time by using public/private key encryption, this could cause issues with moderation.
I guess you could combine the ideas to require an explicit transfer, while still using the encryption keys to maintain ownership of old content in some way, maybe.
Lemmy’s export/import settings isn’t really that different from what Mastodon does, since you normally can’t follow Lemmy users anyways, so there are no followers (or very few) to transfer.
This sounds like a moderation nightmare. Just create a troll account on one instance and now you can use it to login to every other instance and start spreading hate. When that instance bans you then you just move to the next instance? These instance admins don’t even see your signup application, they can’t stop you?
That is both a pro and con of the fediverse. I think instances (and even other users or communities perhaps) could store a reputation profile for each account and could have their own rules about where that user can post, how often they can post and their reach or visibility given their reputation.
New and low reputation accounts would have a very limited visibility, which would seriously impede a troll’s ability to open new accounts that have any value.
I guess it does seem like a complicated algorithm to figure out and I can see why this hasn’t been implemented yet.
that’s one of the plus points of using the fediverse I’ve heard? and I just did a quick google and at least mastodon software has that function.
Now that I’m here now, at least lemmy/mbin seem like it can’t yet. kind of. lemmy does allow to export and import some settings to move around instances.
nucleative put 2 different ideas in their comment actually.
The first idea was moveable accounts, just transferring like Mastodon does, which still gives the instance admin a chance to decline or ban you.
The 2nd idea was the account working on all instances at any time by using public/private key encryption, this could cause issues with moderation.
I guess you could combine the ideas to require an explicit transfer, while still using the encryption keys to maintain ownership of old content in some way, maybe.
Lemmy’s export/import settings isn’t really that different from what Mastodon does, since you normally can’t follow Lemmy users anyways, so there are no followers (or very few) to transfer.