@dansup@pixelfed per-account & instance ranking and build a trust graph and cluster things. Spambots tend to follow spambots, thus they cluster together, normal people tend to follow the same normal people.... this is a method used many times before (pgp web of trust is one example) it does require knowing the full graph for involved accounts, thus that can be harder. I am sure somebody comes up with a trustrank service that can give out a score; then multiple services and if x/y deprio ;)
@aral the better analogy would be a supermarket chain IMHO
The "shopping mall" are the centralized hosters, people tend to not self-host, let alone on own hardware (I'll excuse hosting in own DC); shopping malls can still have independents... but they all pay rent to a single overlord (Hoster/colocation); the roads are ISPs, which few do on their own... (as at that point it becomes a near full time job ;)
@bagder you do also do happy eyeballs over multiple IPv4 addresses and multiple IPv6 ones right? ;)
And note that Apple published v2: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8305 MacOS/iOS/etc editions have a lot more tricks to connect to the fastest (latency & bandwidth) place, if you use the right APIs to connect it is even quite simple -- but often not available for glibc ;)
@aral Just being a corporation is enough actually. The goal of corporations is to increase the money/payout for the shareholders, not to do good for the customers or heck the world, let alone to deliver a proper product.... oh and no, non-profits do not count anymore often unfortunately, they just make sure that the money is spent every cycle and often are just a way for tax write-offs for the large corporations...
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