@sun@i@lain@mint@hj@takao well for all we know it's a Mastodon federation bug where they're just federating to too many servers but nobody noticed because at least the posts are being delivered
@sun that should probably be a client feature, not a server feature. I used an iPhone app a while ago that let me create my own timeline based on a list of servers. Can't remember which fedi app it was.
@hj@i@lain@takao I believe Mastodon is currently just delivering public posts to every server it has federated with instead of targeting only the inboxes of servers on which the followers reside.
Pleroma only delivers to relevant servers. Perhaps we should just change that? Then all you have to do is like authorized_fetch of one post on a server and you'll start getting all their public posts too
@i@lain@hj@takao I have literally like 400,000 accounts on my server which are posts from users who nobody on my server follows. You don't need to follow people directly to receive their posts on your instance.
@sun@jeffcliff we're only like 2 years into this so far. The hammer drops slowly, but with immense force when it makes contact. We have to wait longer to see who gets snared.
@jeffcliff@sun that was not even close to being the same as the current crop of products and tech. You could go all the way back to ELIZA if you want to stretch it.
@sun@jeffcliff the media told them to hate it because they took claims made by companies to the extreme and then said "see, it doesn't even work right it's a scam" while ignoring that if it really was a scam product we have legal avenues to adjudicate it and allow the victims to be awarded damages