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Federation is pretty cool, but kinda confusing, and maybe a little scary (shkspr.mobi)

submitted 1 year ago by edent@lemmy.one to c/technology@beehaw.org

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I've been on the Fediverse since 2016, and I still get a little mixed up by how things work.

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[–] dan@upvote.au 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

eventually write a script that starts up new instances and then runs spambots on them.

Spammers wouldn't even have to run Lemmy to spam, as they could have a spamming script that uses ActivityPub directly. I really hope that doesn't become widespread...

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

It definitely will, if it makes financial sense. Spamming and cybercrime is a highly competitive market with low barriers to entry.