@p @dcc @sysrq >"People on this server want to see this" is a pretty good criterion for whether or not you store something on the server.
"People on this server want to point out a retard" ∈ "People on this server want to see this"
>food analogy
How American of you!
>it's also stupid to insist that a person should eat equal amounts of good food and poison.
Small amounts of poison might bring immunity to larger ones.
>A wrench-spammer puts zero thought into spamming wrenches and doesn't even read the posts that he's indicating his displeasure about
The wrench spammer I know had a clear pattern of doing so. Posts that fit his criteria of being manipulative or trying to pass emotions as objective fact.
>You are worried about a problem [...] on a server that is due to be replaced
I don't, I simply explain my disagreement.
>Well, you've heard what I have to say about relays. They're not super useful.
Maybe the public ones. I stopped using them once there were too much g*rmans on TWKN to mute.
>Maybe it has been fixed since; rejected activities still pass through the pipeline.
I'll test it once Frantech's upstream stips shitting itself. Remind me if I forget.
>"Announce" activities from deactivated users still cause posts to federate here.
I believe deactivation checks are handled on a different pipeline that happens after MRF.
>Pleroma federates Likes that originate on the server, but it doesn't pass them along second-hand.
It still has to fetch the referenced object.