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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • “Negativity on my feed is nonexistent.”

    Absolute first thing I noticed when I came in to test this as a Reddit alternative. It’s so refreshing, and the discourse is so civil.

    If there’s a way we can keep this quality, it’d be amazing. I often wondered when I’m on Reddit or twitter how much of the awful negativity is really people’s or bots/algos prodding them into acting this way.

    If the current big players best bets are to weasel in on the large instances, are there any simple changes that could be done to prevent their take over or influence? Things that aren’t too heavy handed?


  • Are Email addresses kept and logged anywhere, or are they discarded after registration?

    For privacy reasons, it’d be nice if we could somehow have a reliable bot blocking/spam blocking method that doesn’t require Email.

    While Email adds a good layer of spam blocking just from the spam blocking the email providers are doing themselves, having an option to verify with Email OR jump through multiple hoops instead would be cool. Hoops that are difficult for a bot to be programmed to defeat all of them. Such as captcha, with a simple math equation, and something else all combined.

    Just tossing ideas around, because this is all still being built out.


  • What are the typical actors in the Reddit and twitter spam scene? And what’s the likelihood of each type setting up on here now?

    • Product spamming, to advertise.

    • PR companies that offer to sway community opinions, upvote/down vote for their clients.

    • State actors with various propaganda intent.

    • Preparing the bot accounts early in order to sell them to PR companies or other actors above.

    • Actors incentivized to try to turn this service into a shit hole to keep users in the normal channels for some reason or other. Give it financial incentives or ability to control narratives on other platforms.

    • Bots push financial related news stories or sentiment, eg. Trying to pump crypto markets.

    These are just ideas off of the top of my head of the type of bots or actors running them. But I don’t really have any experience with it, just wondering what everyone’s thinking the intent is.