I wonder if maybe It Can Be Different This Time. I think it will take focused work at the protocol level, because you’re right that the Fediverse is a juicy target. I worry that the next 6 months will be a war against spam and other attackers… one that instance admins are under-resourced and under-equipped to win.
One thing the cryptocurrency people do get right is designing protocols for attack resistance from the get go. They do this because it’s money, but people need to learn that everything is money. Personal data, attention, access to boost opinions, etc are all fungible currencies that will get stolen if they are not protected.
ActivityPub is not designed for a battlefield. I worry that this dooms it.
I wonder if maybe It Can Be Different This Time. I think it will take focused work at the protocol level, because you’re right that the Fediverse is a juicy target. I worry that the next 6 months will be a war against spam and other attackers… one that instance admins are under-resourced and under-equipped to win.
We need to get a governance structure going and iterate towards something like OcapPub https://gitlab.com/spritely/ocappub