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Monty Taylor wrote:
> [...]
> However, it's worth noting that matrix is not immune to spam. As an open 
> federated protocol, it's a target as well. Running our own home server 
> might give us some additional tools - but it might not, and we might be 
> in the same scenario except now we're running another service and we had 
> the pain of moving.
> [...]

Any open communication platform is subject to spam. As long as you let 
anonymous users join and post stuff, it will happen as soon as the 
platform reaches a certain critical mass. Slack is not immune to this: 
it has spam too, and the platform being outside of your control 
limits[1] your options.

Freenode/IRC is a bit bad because it does not make it easy to /deal/ 
with spam. The protocol being designed at a time where it was costly to 
switch IPs, you can ignore people/hosts, but not messages based on key 
words. As we look into alternatives, we should evaluate their 
spam-filtering abilities...

[1] 
https://www.reddit.com/r/Slack/comments/71bd1h/need_help_preventing_pm_spam/

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Thierry Carrez (ttx)