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The Fediverse has a problem with accidentally DDoS-ing remote service. What can we do about it?

I was recommended to share this article I wrote a few days ago on here, too; so here we are!

The TL;DR is “link embed fetching communes” as a partial “fix” to the issue (pretty buzzwordy, sorry for that)

  • Rimu
    3•6 months ago

    Not all servers are equal. I would trust a post from lemmy.world or lemmy.ml to have valid metadata, for example. It’d be great if admins had some way to specify trusted instances (with the biggest 6 instances as initial defaults).

    There would be other uses for the trusted instances concept. Automatic sharing of moderation actions, block lists, community lists, etc

      • Rimu
        2•6 months ago

        Link previews for content from untrusted instances could still be generated just as they are now.

        The centralisation that has happened is a separate issue.

      • @[email protected]English
        1•6 months ago

        It’s not centralization if not everyone trusts the same server, which there is no obligation to