In fairness, I can see why the accusation of being spammy is justified. But to address the issue of scamminess - Although we don't mention the site address yet, here's it being talked about by the Mod Team on r/futurology
https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/15pbknv/do_you_have_some_time_to_take_a_look_at/
You've reminded me there's an error there (confusion with nomenclature) that I'll go & fix.
It's interesting that there is an investor gold rush for AI at the moment. I wonder if many of them will follow the same unsuccessful path outlined here?
Subscribing to communities on other fediverse sites (instances) is relatively straightforward, but not intuitive.
Paste their address in the format !community@site.com into the search bar here - click on the result returned, now when you get back to the site, you should see a "Join" button you can click.
It's interesting that privacy & security is what is driving this. Presumably future vendors will have AI products that overcome these suggestions.
I wonder what motivated any DOS attacks.
This reminds of strange circling behavior of Basking sharks off the the Irish Atlantic coast that's been captured with drones.
Thanks for this, I'm passing it on to the developer. We've been assuming email verification is important to combat bots/trolls. I'll bring up the observation it isn't widely used. It often seems to be something to do with problems we've been having.