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[–] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

Agreed. The only reason this is not overrun with spam and bots is because it is small.

A possible solution could be reputation, but that gets dangerously close to Reddit Karma.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago

    Nah, bots can farm reputation better than humans can.

    The problem is that federation assumes good intent of the admins of other instances. If someone builds a network of instances intended to manipulate votes et cetera, I can't see how the fediverse could resist that.

    Instance A can't trust that votes from instance B are legit. As soon as there's no trust then federating even with an aparently trustworthy instance becomes too costly in terms of time and effort.

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