Getting a bot to spam out 12 posts in a minute is not the way to make me want to engage.

  • Azzu@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    Really though? You can implement the same limits for federated posts, and just drop the ones exceeding the rate limit. Who knows, might be frustrating for normal users that genuinely exceed the rate limits, because their stuff won’t be seen by everyone without any notice, but if they are sane it should be minimal.

    The notice might still be able to be implemented though. idk how federation works exactly, but when a federated post is sent/retrieved, you can also exchange that it has been rejected. The local server of the user can then inform the user that their content has been rejected by other servers.

    There are solutions for a lot of things, it just takes the time to think about & implement them, which is incredibly limited.

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      10 months ago

      Even a “normal” user needs to chill out a bit when they start reliably hitting a (for example) 3-post-a-minute threshold.

    • breadsmasher@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Not to suggest it isn’t a problem that needs to be solved. But from my understanding of activitypub protocol, there isn’t a way to control content federation on a per message basis, solely on allow/block instances as a whole