There is a cost associated with setting up each new instance, domains cost money. Time and effort would have to be invested in automating the set up and teardown of such instances on a daily basis (if the scammer has the ability to do that otherwise they’d be doing it manually). Spammers don’t tend to like to spend any money
federation, from what i understand, requires active users to fully integrate with other instances so lots of PMs coming from federated instances with little to no active users would be detectable i would imagine.
There are technical solutions to these problems. as with any platform, it is always an arms race between spammers and the developers/moderation teams.
Mod tools are useful in automating this sort of stuff but some things are better handled at the low level by Lemmy developers.
I looked into creating some mod tools to help with this sort of thing a year or so ago, but i’m a backend guy if i’m anything dev wise. CSS did what CSS does and gave me a big enough headache to quit
That seems like a lot of work that admins would have trouble keeping up with.
Theoretically couldn’t they keep setting up their own new instance on a daily basis?
There is a cost associated with setting up each new instance, domains cost money. Time and effort would have to be invested in automating the set up and teardown of such instances on a daily basis (if the scammer has the ability to do that otherwise they’d be doing it manually). Spammers don’t tend to like to spend any money
federation, from what i understand, requires active users to fully integrate with other instances so lots of PMs coming from federated instances with little to no active users would be detectable i would imagine.
There are technical solutions to these problems. as with any platform, it is always an arms race between spammers and the developers/moderation teams.
Mod tools are useful in automating this sort of stuff but some things are better handled at the low level by Lemmy developers.
I looked into creating some mod tools to help with this sort of thing a year or so ago, but i’m a backend guy if i’m anything dev wise. CSS did what CSS does and gave me a big enough headache to quit