Yeah but the bad guys also are more likely to be newly registered, but regardless they are also cheap to black list, you just need to subscribe to a good list, or you know, just let them send stuff an...
Blocklists bring back central authorities, hiding everything by default once again risk hiding legitimate requests (hey email also has this issue of putting legitimate senders randomly into the spam folder because of some spam heuristic), at least WoT somewhat alleviates this.
Considering centralization no longer shields from spam (see the comments section of any YouTube video), it’s interesting to see that, as long as you don’t touch public groups, facebook posts don’t get spam, I would say it’s because of the “only friends and friends of friends can comment”.
I don’t know if the Instagram analogy counts though, in that case it’s more of an ego booster and real connections are negotiated out of band.
Considering centralization no longer shields from spam (see the comments section of any YouTube video), it’s interesting to see that, as long as you don’t touch public groups, facebook posts don’t get spam, I would say it’s because of the “only friends and friends of friends can comment”.
I don’t know if the Instagram analogy counts though, in that case it’s more of an ego booster and real connections are negotiated out of band.
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