this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2023
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If we were to take parallel with how big email providers handle federation, there is a good chance that meta will make it a lot harder for smaller instances to federate in the name of combating spam later down the line (throttling activitypub traffics, requiring certain nonstandard antispam technological measures to be added in their instance, etc).
Whether or not the intention is malicious, it'll effectively discourage people to "spread out" and run their own instances for their community, and fediverse citizens will slowly but surely migrate to the big operators because of less hassle and that's where everyone hang out.
I mean, isn’t that good? Small instances thrive because they run faster without the overload of a bunch of users. I don’t want every asshole from Instagram on the instance I’m on.