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> When you follow a user on another server for the first time, your server subscribes to that user specifically. That means even if there is a server with milli
by lapcat 3y ago
> When you follow a user on another server for the first time, your server subscribes to that user specifically. That means even if there is a server with millions of people in the network, unless you follow millions of people, you will not be receiving updates for millions of people. This keeps traffic and storage manageable across the network. As such, small servers will not be affected, and may not even notice the presence of Threads, except when they decide to follow specific users.
Ok, but what happens when millions of people on threads.net follow people on Mastodon servers, interact with their posts via reply/favorite/boost, send them private messages, etc.?
And how are Mastodon instances going to deal with spam coming from Threads? I know a lot of Mastodon instance administrators were already annoyed by spam coming from mastodon.social, but Threads could be orders of magnitude worse, and will Meta even care about that? As a Mastodon user, you can't really report spam directly to Meta.
- rvz 3y agoWell its clear that Eugen is one of those who has signed Meta's NDA to federate with Threads and isn't bothered about the users on Mastodon.social going to receive all the spam from Threads, which he won't admit. Meta doesn't care either. So better prepare yourself for the scale or otherwise experience regular downtime, unless Meta is footing the bill for the biggest instances to stay up.
- lapcat 3y ago> So better prepare yourself for the scale or otherwise experience regular downtime, unless Meta is footing the bill for the biggest instances to stay up. Some instances are planning to defederate from Threads immediately, so they'll be fine. And other instances may be forced to defederate eventually, whether they like it or not.
- singpolyma3 3y agoSpam needs to be handled at the receiving server.
- lapcat 3y agoYes? That was my point! Spam from Threads can become a burden on Mastodon instances.