the entire spam problem comes from the underlying desire to see content you didn’t have to explicitly find and request. e-mail spam is because you WANT to receive e-mail from some strangers, and it’s hard to distinguish that from strangers you’d rather not hear from. Twitter/social spam is because you WANT to see some posts from people you didn’t explicitly follow, by tags or by topic.
I think I mostly don’t understand the lines of federation within Mastodon. Is it intended that the server is the unit of community, with cross-server DMs and following, but only by individual, not by topic or thread?
the entire spam problem comes from the underlying desire to see content you didn’t have to explicitly find and request. e-mail spam is because you WANT to receive e-mail from some strangers, and it’s hard to distinguish that from strangers you’d rather not hear from. Twitter/social spam is because you WANT to see some posts from people you didn’t explicitly follow, by tags or by topic.
I think I mostly don’t understand the lines of federation within Mastodon. Is it intended that the server is the unit of community, with cross-server DMs and following, but only by individual, not by topic or thread?