@maiyannah I'm not ignoring the fediverse (I'm using it right now). I played the world domination game twenty years ago. It was certainly fun, though I did a lot of things I now regret. I'm an old man now. Not a lot of time left to fix my karma.

@strypey @maiyannah

"Inter-operable" is a tall order, especially considering that interop opens you to spam and strips away a lot of your privacy. Your media is all forced public. Your content is mangled beyond recognition by primitive text-only and length-restricted platforms. It also completely destroys any chance to use nomadic identity.

It's no longer a benefit to your users but a liability and a threat to your network security and data integrity. Your users can always just use the popular project and say goodbye to yours (until they get burned by dickpics and harrassment or site shutdowns and come running back). Life is a series of choices and sometimes people make bad decisions. I'm OK with that. But just because they do doesn't mean I have to.

@strypey @maiyannah

(PS: I use the word "you" in this post collectively. It is not directed at any person).

That's not hard at all. Any human (or robot) can comment on your posts, except those that you or your site have already blocked. Now think how many posts there are on the AP network. That's a lot of wide open spam targets. But you're in good company. Diaspora does the same. Now think about a spam delivery engine generating 100 messages a second. (I've seen them perform orders of magnitude above this). Sure you can block the spammer. But they can open another engine on a new site. And another and another. In fact they can spin up new VMs as quickly as they can allocate domain names and ip addresses. I can't think of a way to stop it (short of designing security in from day one - and it's probably a bit late for that).

There are reasons why this was allowed and became the network default. I understand that. The zot default is for comments from connections only and you can force moderation of comments for any connection. (You can also change this and allow anybody but that isn't exacly a sane default.) There are moderated groups so spammers don't sneak into your stream through one of your groups. That's just a start.