Recently I've started running my own lemmy instance, as part of my decoupling from Reddit, due to them speed-running enshittification. The instance has been growing nicely and holding up very well indeed. but there's dark clouds forming on the horizon, as more of more of the early adopters and people with principles are leaving that [...]

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/163869

I have updated the content of this devlog to match the current workflow of the API, with the streamlined registration and claims

  • ericjmoreyEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Can you dumb this down for me? How is this supposed to help?

    • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      It’s useful data. You can see which domains have been checked by others as not-spam and which have been endorsed by other instances. How you use this data is up to each instance, but once it grows large enough it could be used for spam detection, or for whitelisting.

      • ericjmoreyEnglish
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        1 year ago

        So the determination is whether the entire instance is spam or not?

        • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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          1 year ago

          For guaranteess, yes. Either being dedicated to spam, or overrun by spam accounts etc