Perhaps a case to be made for a federated minimum-config. If servers don’t adhere to a minimum viable contract, say meeting requirements for rate-limiting, or not requiring 2fa, or other config-level things… They become defederated.
A way of enforcing adherence to an agreed upon minimum standard of behaviour, of sorts
It would be very easy to spoof those values in a handshake though, unless you’re proposing that in the initial data exchange a remote server gets a dump of every post and computationally verifies compliance.
Federated trust is an unsolved problem in computer science because of how complex of a problem it is.
Spoofing that handshake would be a bad faith action, one that would not go unnoticed longer term. Instances with a bunch of bad faith actions will make the case for not federating with themselves.
Perhaps a case to be made for a federated minimum-config. If servers don’t adhere to a minimum viable contract, say meeting requirements for rate-limiting, or not requiring 2fa, or other config-level things… They become defederated.
A way of enforcing adherence to an agreed upon minimum standard of behaviour, of sorts
It would be very easy to spoof those values in a handshake though, unless you’re proposing that in the initial data exchange a remote server gets a dump of every post and computationally verifies compliance.
Federated trust is an unsolved problem in computer science because of how complex of a problem it is.
Spoofing that handshake would be a bad faith action, one that would not go unnoticed longer term. Instances with a bunch of bad faith actions will make the case for not federating with themselves.
It just has to go unnoticed long enough to spam for a few days, get defederated, delete itself, start over