Comment by darby_nine

> In fact there are really only two groups that are pro-spam

you forgot the entire marketing industry

> everyone is incentivized to enter walled garden services that actually do the barest minimum of enforcement for spam activity

These walled gardens actively spam you—that's how they make money. They only act against competing advertisers.

For there to be an incentive to avoid spam, we would need a social network not funded by it. To my knowledge this is essentially ActivityPub. In order for ActivityPub to be useful, we need an incentive to drag celebrities away from private paychecks that benefit from manipulation of other social networks (twitter, ig, tt). I don't believe there is any such entity or incentivization right now.