• skisnow@lemmy.ca
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    10 hours ago

    Either I’ve not understood your point, or you’re suggesting that spammers would limit themselves to one instance?

    Spam is about volume, and a 0.1% takeup rate would be a dream for a spammer.

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      10 hours ago

      I actually typed 99.999% first, but then decided some stickler would for sure question that number then 🤦

      The point is that operating on hundreds of different pages that each have limited reach and interact only in a limited fashion in a way that isn’t a problem for legitimate users but severely limits the volume spammers can reach is a lot of work. Spam only makes sense when it is cheap to do and high volume.

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        10 hours ago

        Sorry, I’m still stuck on what the limiting aspect of it is. “Operating on hundreds of pages that each have limited reach” costs next to nothing if it’s all automated with bots.

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          This assumes all these hundreds of pages are exactly the same and can be automated with bots without anyone noticing immediately.

          There is a reason why spam on the Fediverse almost exclusively comes from a few large generic servers.