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If you could vet members in any meaningful way, they'd be doing it already.
Most instances are open wide to the public.
A few have registration requirements, but it’s usually something banal like “say I agree in Spanish to prove your Spanish enough for this instance” etc.
This is a choice any instance can make if they want, none are but that doesn’t mean they can’t or it doesn’t work.
I was referring to some of the larger players in the space, ie Meta, Twitter, etc.
Right, but they’re shit and don’t good things out of principle.
We, the Fediverse, are the alternative to them.
Doesn't matter if they're shit or not, they don't want bots crawling their sites, straining their resources, or constantly shit posting, but they do anyway. And if the billion dollar corporations can't stop them, it's probably a good bet that you can't either.
Because they want user data over anything.
We want quality communities over anything.
We can be selective, they go bankrupt without consistent growth.
Okay, but the bots work for other people...
... Yes? What does that have to do with anything?
Those companies want an easy quick way for people to join because they want constant growth. That means not doing any sort of real checking or verification, it's not because these billion dollar company cannot afford to, it's because they don't want to.
Their problems are not our problems.
Have you tried to sign up for one of these services recently? It's a fucking nightmare. They can't stop them. Money is no object and they can't do it.
It could be cool to get a blue check mark for hosting your own domain (excluding the free domains)
It would be more expensive than bot armies are willing to deal with.
Well, what doesn't work, it seems, is giving (your) access to "anyone".
Maybe a system where people, I know this will be hard, has to look up outlets themselves, instead of being fed a "stream" dictated by commercial incentives (directly or indirectly).
I'm working on a secure decentralised FOSS network where you can share whatever you want, like websites. Maybe that could be a start.
I think you replied to the wrong comment.
Well no?
What did I miss?
I'm speaking broadly in general terms in the post, about sharing online.
This conversation was about bots. Yours is about "outlets" and "streams", whatever that is.
If you have some algorithm or few central points distributing information, any information, you'll get bot problems. If you instead yourself hook up with specific outlets, you won't have that problem, or if one is bot infested you can switch away from it. That's hard when everyone is in the same outlet or there are only few big outlets.
Sorry if it's not clear.
What is an outlet?