Post #1428112

2026-02-01 11:48 UTC

@modulux A good example would be identifying a wave of spam from multiple individual accounts, each one being a “normal” amount of traffic, but the aggregate being a disproportionate amount of volume. Another would be a group that targets a subset of a community with messages that, individually, do not break any rules but the combined result is that the targeted community members feel so unwelcome that they can’t participate safely in the space without harming their mental health. When done severely enough and targeted enough, it can erode a community over time to the point where it collapses

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@modulux@node.isonomia.net 2026-02-01 11:50

@hazelweakly I see, so things that don't cross the threshold of harm as individual interactions but which aggregate. Thanks for the clarification.

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@jmaris@eupolicy.social 2026-02-01 17:54

@hazelweakly @modulux The issue with the DSA is that it only requires moderation of things that are actually illegal in member states, too. I agree with you that this is currently a blindspot. A few mastodon servers I've used have faced this from Russian bots on the network. The moment a pattern linking their posts was discovered, they were all immediately banned. The same is obviously not true of the "big" online social media platforms :(

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@diazona@techhub.social 2026-02-01 19:27

@hazelweakly @modulux Thanks... weirdly, this is something I rarely see explained as clearly as you've done here, despite it being a simple concept.

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