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Wait, is Beehaw moving away from Lemmy or something? 😵‍💫

Edit: nvm just saw the big thread about it.

It never seizes to amaze me how many people are seemingly unable to understand such a simple concept. Either that or they just don't want to understand. Considering the type of people that like to pull the freedom of speech card I'm guessing it's probably the latter.

Done. Looking forward to the results :)

What if you have 100s or 1000s of such instances? At some point you defeat the entire purpose of the federation.

This is what I'm worried about. As the fediverse grows and gains popularity it will undoubtedly become worth targeting. It's not hard to imagine it becoming a lucrative target for things like astroturfing, vote brigading etc bots. For centralized sites it's not hard to come up with some solutions to at least minimize the problem. But when everyone can just spin up a Lemmy, Kbin, etc instance it becomes a much, much harder problem to tackle because instances can also be ran by bot farms themselves, where they have complete control over the backend and frontend as well. That's a pretty scary scenario which I'm not sure can be "fixed". Maybe something can be done on the ActivityPub side, I don't know.

This might work against very generic bots, but it won't work against specialized bots. Those wouldn't even need to parse the DOM, just recreate the HTTP requests.

Well that surely wouldn't backfire in the most spectacular way ever. I mean, it's not as if Reddit has ever had any vote brigading and botting issues, right? Right?

I can already hear the CPA/affiliate marketing bots spinning up lol.

None of the big ones were allowing NSFW posts on their instances, but anyone can create an instance that does allow it 🙂

There's lemmynsfw.com as well now.

That's great news 👏. I really hope most of the subs currently participating end up going indefinite. Especially with Spez shrugging off the whole thing in the media.

This is the sad truth. I honestly can't wait until Spez finds out that his glorified RSS feed isn't worth as much as he thought it was come the IPO. One of their investors already got the memo.