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Mastodon is very, very vulnerable to spam - a lot like email before SPIF/DKIM/spam filters. I hope the community is able to fix this before the spammers figure out how to exploit it.
You could trivially make lots of fake servers with lots of fake accounts and absolutely dominate the network
Please don’t do this
Like, I could make a fake server with a fake Justin Bieber that claims to have 100 billion followers and be verified
Instance admins would defederate me but I could just move
Add in some AI text generation and I could make something that really really feels like a real instance but isn’t
@dfeldman also - pretty easy to DoS current ActivityPub implementations even without trying to. The "killer" feature (everyone can have their own server) is also the **killer** feature https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/109315412776960105
