@Moon @graf @Fever @sim
>your server has no right to compel my server to process a single byte of information.
Sure it does. I have the right to free speech; I have the right to speak to you.
>fediverse servers are remarkably permissive as-is but there are limits.
There are not.
>or example SPC recently had to disable processing remote delete requests, solely for the pragmatic reason that remote account deletion floods servers with enough delete requests that it can disable the entire site. poa.st and a number of other servers have done this as well because the software literally just can't handle it.
This is what I hate the most.
>Have to
You didn't have to. You chose to.