Notices by Duncan (duncan1n1@ieji.de)

@aquilegia 这也是中国医疗系统以营利为目的造成的过度医疗的一种形式。没病的人当作有病来治，医生赚钱，医院也赚钱，皆大欢喜。只有患者的身体和钱包倒霉。

@SolSoCoG Update: I have given up on reporting the spam messages after receiving and reporting dozens of them daily for many days in a row. I will start to ignore them. I suspect most people are ignoring them now. We need an automated solution that doesn’t require user reporting the spam messages.

@SolSoCoG I think temporarily muting repeatedly offending instances is unavoidable.

My two cents on this is:

This shouldn’t result in a permanent suspension of an instance unless the spamming issue persists on a subset of instances

Solely relying on user reporting spam is not good enough. If a user received 2 spam messages, they will likely report them all. But if a user received 2000 spam messages in a day, it’s not realistic to expect anyone to report them all.

@SolSoCoG I understand your concern. However, I believe Meta will not use their own IPs if they don't want to have the mass data collection activities associated with them. Is a whitelist-based approach the cost worth paying for? I highly doubt about it.
If doing something degrades user experience (unable to interact with some users) but is ineffective at defending against mass data collection, it’s really the worst of both worlds. It perhaps isn’t a good approach and needs to be reconsidered.

@SolSoCoG I would rather prefer the site do not take a stand on this issue, and let the user decide whether they want to block another site.

Personally, I treat anything and everything I put on social media sites as public, and I would like to keep all my posts accessible by anyone else, including Meta products‘ users.

Technically, blocking Threads does not improve privacy. If Meta wants to collect data, all they have to do is to create a crawler pretending to be a mastodon instance.