I was reading about this study some just the other day. Gotta say that I'm really intrigued by how it re-frames the generally accepted knowledge. I hope they're able to derive something testable from this.
delcake
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MGS3 is such an experience, enjoy it! It's remarkable how much depth got crammed in to the MGS games, even just in the codec calls alone.
Slide for Reddit was my app of choice. Now I'm just waiting for my CCPA data export request to come back to me. Once that's done, all the old accounts are going in the shredder.
I agree with Jamie. While it is certainly possible for a bad actor to spin up burner instances for the purposes of evading defederation, that's a disproportionate amount of effort compared to just creating a new account somewhere that already exists.
Will we see it happen? Probably. But it honestly seems easier to deal with than if those bad actors were to hide themselves in established instances.
In no way is the person you're responding to speaking defensively. They've discussed the reason why your extrapolation to a full-mesh connective worst-case scenario isn't based in the reality of how ActivityPub functions. But you don't seem to be willing to entertain the notion that the federation of any given action never exceeds the number of instances subscribed to the community that generated it.
Even should every instance subscribe to every community on every other instance, the recipient of a federated action doesn't turn around and rebroadcast that action back on to the network because it is not the authoritative host of that community. Therefore what this discussion is lacking is proof of where this exponential broadcast storm of federated actions comes from in your assertion.