I find that argument silly. I have found this silly WRT "there are no viruses for Linux because no-one uses Linux" too. If it is small, the attack is going to

I find that argument silly. I have found this silly WRT "there are no viruses for Linux because no-one uses Linux" too. If it is small, the attack is going to be much cheaper too. You don't need 24/7 active armies of trolls, you need one, maybe two parttimers to attack a small mastodon service. My argument is that at all moments the attackers will weight benefits and costs. Currently, apparently, the costs to infiltrate, spread fake-news, or troll is too high. This is caused by both the size of the attacked community (the benefits to the attackers are low) but mostly due to the attack being hard enough to not implement it.