The interesting thing to consider is that someone who is popular to read may well be as much of a headache for the local sysop as someone who is a frequent target for attacks. How long until they have a 'bot that just 429s all of your posts on sight, do you think? (-:
On a more serious note: Given that many user communities in the FediVerse are people conscious of their privacy and of suffering pile-ons by large majorities of outsiders, I wonder how many more examples of this there will be before people start asking the developers for out-of-the-box defaults that simply blacklist all requests that come in with referrer headers containing news.ycombinator.com and other similar "Slashdotting" sites.
JdeBP|2 years ago
JdeBP|2 years ago
It's not beyond the bounds of possibility. Compare https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/15431 .
morkalork|2 years ago
BHSPitMonkey|2 years ago