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.
Hyperz
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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.
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.
Even if we forget about advertising, 48 hours is just not enough to achieve anything and might actually be worse than no blackout at all if people want to see change. Louis Rossmann made some great points about that in his latest video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U06rCBIKM5M
Time to sit back, relax, and watch ~~the world~~ Reddit burn 😎 🍿
I can't think of a better way to put more gasoline on the fire. If it happens I hope the users revolt and completely shit up any sub where they pull this stunt. Let's see how long those new mods last then, and how many advertisers they lose.
Man that whole situation really sucks. Reddit was by far my most visited site before they decided to light the house on fire. On mobile I always used Boost because the official app is terrible and (at least the last time I looked at it) would drain my battery like it was nothing even when the app was closed. RIP. At least we've got Lemmy. I just wish these 3rd party apps would take their users to the fediverse instead of shutting down entirely. As a developer it really sucks when you have to shut down a project you've put so much work into.
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What if you have 100s or 1000s of such instances? At some point you defeat the entire purpose of the federation.