Federated spam list

November 26, 2022•31 words

Idea from this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33738231

What about federating whitelists/blacklists? Real spam is a problem for all user driven communities, and this should be seen as an orthogonal, separate issue from banning/blocking.

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