@feditips

For the price of a blue check mark, you, too, can own an entire ̶T̶w̶i̶t̶t̶e̶r̶ Mastodon.

@feditips

Hey. Attacks (usually DDOS attacks) are the responsibility of the webhost to mitigate; they're the only ones with the tools to do so (unless you're renting an entire server, which I assume you don't). If your host can't or won't handle this problem, it may be time to switch hosts. I haven't had a DDOS attack yet, but my website became very popular on Reddit for a hot second, which amounted to the same thing, and my provider handled the load themselves.

Yes. But a bad actor doesn't have to sign up to mastodon.art to harass users there. They can use some pleroma cesspit or their own instance and do it from there.

@feditips

The problem is, the fediverse is more brittle than this makes it sound. It's still better than any centralized platform, but it's not as robust as it should be:

1. Small servers can and will go down without a warning, leaving users stranded and their data lost. The Mastodon pledge tries to get a handle on this, but only works when people adhere to it.

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@feditips

This is a long read, but it very succinctly explains why these things inevitably always will happen on centralized systems:

https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/

@feditips

I think a site like Reddit can't easily be federated. It bills itself as the "front page of the internet" because it's an aggregator for people to find interesting topics. If you distribute this, there will be many "front pages", which makes the whole "aggregator" concept nonsensical.

And having one Reddit clone as the new "front page" where people use federation only to comment on that site seems to defy federation, too.

Reddit will be succeeded by another centralized service.