Thanasis KiniasNov 23, 2022
Starting to see commercial accounts spamming hashtags on here. As Mastodon becomes more mainstream, it’s probably inevitable that businesses are going to try to use it for marketing, but I don’t feel like there’s anything like consensus around what the boundaries should be.
Show threadJim Carroll - Future GuyNov 23, 2022

@tkinias

Wait until this happens.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Canter_and_Martha_Siegel

Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel - Wikipedia

Show threadThanasis Kinias
@jimcarroll
the hope is that those of us old enough to remember the bad old days of out-of-control Usenet and e-mail spam take action to nip it in the bud on here
Nov 23, 2022 at 4:53pmWeb
Show threadJim Carroll - Future GuyNov 23, 2022

@tkinias

Canute.

Show threadJim Carroll - Future GuyNov 23, 2022

@tkinias

I have no doubt that corporates will arrive just as they did in '94.

I think the interesting thing is the distributed architecture of this thing - filtering control is i the hands of each instance. So perhaps a new culture of behaivior might be borne.

On the other hand, while depressed about tech last month because of the bird site, I wrote this into my Daily Inspiration:

Show threadThanasis KiniasNov 23, 2022
@jimcarroll
at least we shouldn’t have problems like open relays—the difference from 1994 is that now we know that spammers and scammers have to be actively thwarted and we can’t just naïvely assume good faith from everybody on the Internet
Show threadJim Carroll - Future GuyNov 23, 2022

@tkinias

Required reading.