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> The point of the Fediverse is that WE DECIDE WHAT OUR OWN FEED IS... no algorithm, no "AI" deciding what we see and what we don't see.. We decide, with our own hashtags and filters, etc.
Yes but I'd argue these tools are lacking.There should be algorithms, but these algorithms should be under **our** control. We can turn them off if want, or configure them how we want.
Algorithms arent evil when your the one in control.
You will care when they start spamming everyone with commercial ads and traffic.
That said you cant reasonably expect to keep commercial interests off an open-network. So I am not suggesting there is much we can do to stop their existance. But we can, at a minimum, block the ones that spam,a nd avoid joining the ones that are commercial but maybe not spamming/advertising on the network.
That works fine when servers play by the rules... a spam server is likely not to. They will just mass spam people and change their domain every hour, and it effectively becomes unblockable in any effective way.
The only reason that isnt more of a problem yet is because there isnt much commercial interest here yet. But if this place were popular that would be happening a lot and the only way to effectively stop it would be to switch to a white-list mode.
@freemo @mcv @randahl @admin For me, the rules of federating are entirely content based. If an instance is full of spam, I'll block it, whether it's commercial or open. If it's got illegal content, I'll block it, whether it's commercial or open.
But I don't think I'd ever block an entire server just on the basis of being run for profit.