My top recommendation to the @Mastodon team and all other #Fediverse instances fighting the influx of spam: Learn from @codinghorror about the concept of Trust Levels and consider implementing it asap.
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My top recommendation to the @Mastodon team and all other #Fediverse instances fighting the influx of spam: Learn from @codinghorror about the concept of Trust Levels and consider implementing it asap.
Understanding Discourse Trust Levels
The user trust system is a fundamental cornerstone of Discourse. Trust levels are a way of…
Discourse (blog.discourse.org)
This is perhaps the most under appreciated feature of Discourse and I’m amazed it’s not more mainstream.
While not necessary for an initial implementation, this system can also be applied to a federated environment, as put forth by @how
Federated Reputation
On the SocialHub, @keunes proposed to federate reputation in the sense that if Discourse supported ActivityPub, people could use their existing reputation on one or more Discourse instances across the Internet to bypass …
Discourse Meta (meta.discourse.org)
