If it is linked to the Internet then it’ll be hit by crawlers. Their “trap” isn’t any how many show up but how long each bot stays on their individual site.

It made me make an account here. I also convinced the group chat to move to signal last night.

A bot can do that and do it at scale.

I think we are going to need to reconceptualize the Internet and why we are on here at all.

It already is practically impossible to stop bots and I’m a very short time it’ll be completely impossible.

So long as it is humans posting this will be a problem. The benefit of a federated system is that you can’t compromise the person at the top and then everything collapses.

I just jumped on here today (from seeing this article on Reddit) but my understanding is that the advantage is that the CEO can’t decide he wants to suck authoritarian cock and destroy our ability to discuss and/or organize.

(Admittedly I joined the biggest server I could find so I kind of violated that idea as well).