I wrote this over a month ago kind of blasting the Fediverse in its current form and never posted it because I realized I would be better served actually running an instance for a while before posting it. I have done now and... I stand by it.
it's a good one. we encourage people to read it because it's important to have shared vocabulary when talking about complex issues.
...is for the balance of users to energy to hit the spambot accretion level, when it becomes functionally viable to start mass-creating spam accounts on a given service, and how it'll hold against that. I'll be honest, I don't think the "fediverse" (which is a name I hate for a whole host of reasons) is prepared for the kind of bad actors who can and will spin up entire instances and populate them with faux accounts to leech and spam until they get sufficiently defederated, and then just close it out and spin up a new one, over and over.
that, in the absence of a better plan, the "default" answer is going to be more centralization and hierarchy. then we're back where we started, except everyone is burned out.
it is really important to come up with a better plan before then. we would like to encourage anyone who sees this to start thinking about it.
