Fediverse spam doesn't work as easily here on Hubzilla.
Spammers can try to mention-spam me all they want. I won't even notice. If someone whom I don't follow mentions me outside any thread I follow,
I'm neither notified, nor do I receive the mention in my channel stream (= local timeline). Unlike on Mastodon. That is, I
could turn this behaviour on on Hubzilla if I wanted to, but it's off by default.
If you want to spam my channel stream, the following criteria have to be met:
- I must be following you. Whether or not I do is entirely my decision.
- I must have allowed you to send messages to my channel stream. Again, that's my decision. And I don't unless I explicitly want to. Yes, Hubzilla has such a permission setting. Amongst many others.
- I must not have you on ignore (which keeps me from seeing your stuff, and you won't notice).
- I must not have you on block (which keeps you from sending me stuff in the first place, but you may notice).
- I must not have you on Superblock which wipes you out of existence entirely from my channel's perspective.
Spamming a thread that started on Hubzilla can be prevented by the thread starter. On Hubzilla, the thread starter owns the whole thread, all comments included. If you comment on this post, it's still me who's the owner of your comment within my thread. And I can turn off comments for either specific comments or for the post itself and thereby the whole thread.
And yes, this keeps even Mastodon users from commenting. It may not keep them from sending a post in reply. But that post will not appear in the thread at least for anyone using a project that understands Hubzilla's one-post-many-comments conversation model, myself included.
If bad came to worse, I could even only allow certain users to comment on my posts in the first place. But that'd be overkill.
Oh, and by the way, even if a thread was started by someone else and appears in my channel stream, I can turn off comments for myself, but otherwise the same way that I can turn them off for my own threads. Yes, even if the thread was started on Mastodon.
If it's one bad actor or a few spamming streams and threads: Again, there's Superblock which works regardless of whether I'm connected to someone.
And if bad
really came to worse, my last resort would be to pull up the drawbridge and
turn ActivityPub off entirely for as long as needed. Then nothing would even be able to come in, not from Mastodon, not from Misskey, not from anything else that uses ActivityPub to communicate with Hubzilla.
Poor Mastodon users who only have "mute", "block" and "hope for mods to step in" at their disposal.
#
Long #
LongPost #
CWLong #
CWLongPost #
FediMeta #
FediverseMeta #
CWFediMeta #
CWFediverseMeta #
Hubzilla #
Spam #
FediSpam #
FediverseSpam #
SelfModeration
