@darius now to figure out if posting this somehow violates twitter's new policy, lol

@darius if people are following links from their home instance to another instance, i suppose instances could use the referer header (after checking the domain is a mastodon instance and not another website) and send them back to that instance. might have to make it opt-in for privacy reasons.

@darius i guess the advantage of an instance like journa.host (or even a nytimes-specific instance) is that they could be keep an eye out for attacks targeting newsrooms' entire trust.txt lists and possibly handle it faster or more efficiently.

on the other hand, that might also overwhelm the moderation capabilities of a particular instance.

@darius @technomancy there's this interesting video about how Cookie Clicker succeeds and fails as a satire of capitalism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7khbIR-WQIw. with the caveat that i have not actually played cookie clicker.

@darius seems like the same logic would argue for switching as many computers as possible to chromebooks or similar thin client designs.