@ai6yr Oh, yes. "Hi my name is Nicole from Toronto and I'm making identical accounts everywhere."
#spamming

@DeltaWye @SynAck @Kuniti_shino @ErikUden OFC that's the nature of most services tht are open t new users.

• #Abuse being a statistical inevitability:

#Shitter (rather #Teitter before #Mus ruined it!) had #API #RateLimiting to make #Spamming less effective (255 Statuses per 24hrs) even back when #TweetDeck was a seperate company...

• Making dynamical limits that instantly lockout i.e. brand new accounts sending the same.message to 10+ others as a DM within 48 hours of registration should act as a speed-bump to #Spammers.

It won't prevent it entirely but make it more cumbersome.

• Sadly #Mastodon #Developers refuse to acknowledge the need for efficient filtering.and ban list managment that every other web-facing application / system can do using blocklist feeds.

This prevents remediation and correction of #banlists & #blocklists, leaving a lot if domains burned forever as the only.options are "replace" and "merge" and the average #ActivityPub admin or even #User isn't going to learn or setup a #git!

• which is frustrating as I maintain multiple blocklists to help cleaning up the mess.

I.e. there isn't really a good way to combat #Typosquatting-based #Phishing beyond banning.offending domains...

@KrissyKat espechally since #PhoneNumbers are #PII, #Spamming isn't prosecuted as a #felony and even if one doesn't live in a cyberfacist dystopia that demands "#KYC" on #Prepaid-#SIM|s they'd still have an expense.

• Also I find almost all #Newsletters to be #ValueRemoving #Spam they could've offered via #RSS instead or better yet, not at all!

@standingpad personally, I just add all the #Spammers to my blocklist, report them for #Spamming at their #Hoster|s, #ISP|s and #Rdgistrar|s and sent them angry cease-and-decist demanding them to delete all data they ever acquired about me and ban them from ever contacting me again or visiting any of my sites or social media profiles & posts!

• Works like a charm!!!

@eff @TheGuardian The Problem is the #LackOfAccountability and #LackOfConsequences are the problem.

• The facts are that #Spamming aka. #ColdMailing is not a #felony in the #USA.

• Big #Hosters and #Registrars like #GoDaddy, #NameCheap and #CloudFlare are not just accidentially complicit by stochastic fact that they are Oligopolists in #Hosting and #Domains, but

• also actively working against anyone who wants to report #Abuse of their #Services for #illicit and #banned use-cases.

• This starts with refusal to process #AbuseReports to literally #doxxing any report to their #clients...

#AskMeHowIKnow...