"Buy 500 Pixelfed followers"
"Buy 1K likes"
"Buy 100 comments (from popular Pixelfed server)"
These are just some examples of how the #fediverse will soon have to deal with sketchy "users" and interactions.
In a decentralized system, this would be quite challenging, however a federated system with a few trusted centralized services could help mitigate these types of malicious activities.
Luckily @pixelfed + https://fedidb.org is working on a solution, stay tuned
@dansup
What is the value of having 1K followers in pixelfed?
It's not algorithm based, so no problem
@danialbehzadi @dansup people follow a crowd.
If someone shows outward signs of being popular then they're more likely to get other people jumping on board to join in. Thankfully I've never had that problem