[ilyt]

Yeah but in case of e-mail all it takes for you to "own" your identity is to own your domain at few bucks a year. Bit more work with setting up mastodon instance and dealing with all that mess.

I do wonder how mastodon would handle influx of spammers. There is zero barrier to entry, and banning servers is ineffective if it is just an account doing the spamming.

[dsr_]

Banning a server because it won't shut down a spammer is effective.

A server that doesn't take responsibility for its users will soon find itself shouting into the void... as long as enough admins react.

Gmail is the largest source of spam because other mail systems won't ban it because it's too big.

[ilyt]

Sooo the server is banned, problematic users move off it coz they can't get anything from outside on it and... move on

How that helps ? It just makes impossible for small server admin to take vacation...

[dsr_]

Small server admin should not have open enrollment. Start friends-only. Quite possibly stay friends-only.

When comfortable, change to friends-of-friends.

And if you're going to grow past being comfortable with everyone on your server, have a backup admin you trust.

[scrollaway]

More mastodon and mastodon-like hosts should allow for custom domain names. Then it would allow you to own your AP identity similarly to email.

[elsjaako]

That's just hosting your own, basically. You can pay someone to do that for you.