josemanuel @josemanuel@qoto.org

@lydiaconwell
> How much of a problem is that?

To be honest, I don't know. It's a potential, more than a real, problem. What do I mean by this? Well, think about how the protocol works: when someone posts something, it gets sent to all the other instances that federate with the sending one. Once it reaches an instance, it gets delivered to whoever can read it, but we're not interested about this second part. Inter-instance delievery is what's important, because it costs bandwidth and money to admins.

The way things are now, they seem sustainable enough. But what happens if a billion+ users come in and start posting? Will the system collapse? We don't know. But it could _potentially_ happen. Myself, I'm more worried about hosting costs for small instance admins than unintended DoS attacks.

> If so, that's one hell of a flaw in the Fediverse architecture.

Not really. That's roughly how any decentralised architecture works. AP is not the best protocol ever, but it's not that bad, either.

Relays may help in mitigating this problem. (They already exist. They are like middlepoints between instances. Newly created ones usually subscribe to them to fill their timelines.) If Facebook maintained a relay or a set of them (thus bearing their cost) and they could be configured so they wouldn't flood the rest of the Fediverse, everything would continue as normal. The question is: will they do that or something to that effect?

@adamgreenfield I could (and I do) say the same about you, because what in my post made you think that I am invested in a position other than “people should resolve their differences by talking to each other instead of keeping quiet and then complaining on the Internet about stuff that they could have just misconstrued?”

Also, what in my post made you think that I'm blaming anyone for anything?

@ploum @anthk @f4grx

@adamgreenfield Because RMS is known for not being exactly good at social interactions and he would have probably appreciated being told that he was being an asshole instead of being badmouthed on the Internet some time later?

Because @f4grx could have misinterpreted his intention when he told him to speak louder? Maybe RMS felt that he was being shy and wanted (misguidedly) to help him open up? (Think of the improvised poem scene in _Dead Poets Society_.)

Because understanding the other person's point of view would help him avoid these situations in the future and give him some closure?

I can think of more reasons, but I'm tired of typing the obvious.

@anthk @ploum

@lichess What are the arguments for it?

@louis@emacs.ch Thanks!

@Codeberg Sad that that page requires JS.

Is @Codeberg down?

@lydiaconwell The problem is that, due to the nature of the AP protocol, a federating Meta, with its huge size and post production rate, could have the same effect as a DoS attack on all other instances.

@parker That's a lemming? It looked to me like the masthead of _One Piece_'s Going Merry.

@lina @p

@parker I always thought it was named after him:

https://wikiless.tiekoetter.com/wiki/Lemmy?lang=en

@lina @p

@podcastlinux Font Squirrel estaba muy bien en su día:

https://www.fontsquirrel.com/

@xikufrancesc Aquí te dejo esto: https://akko.disqordia.space/objects/cb72e801-0304-4915-9311-d1e9c3275045

@internetuserguy@mastodon.social
> it was centralized just like usenet was but way easier to use.

Usenet was completely decentralised, just like IRC, and very easy to use. You probably had a lousy client.

@ewdocparris

@lydiaconwell It doesn't work like that. Most emojis used are the same, so they are grouped. Even if there were a lot of them, you wouldn't have to scroll through them.

Besides, you could always make those replies clickable, so other people wouldn't have to dive through a list of emojis when someone else already used an appropriate one.

@lydiaconwell I'll just leave this here: https://qoto.org/@josemanuel/110377842873308306

The worst thing I can say about anything is that it's boring. If you ever read me say that about something, you can be sure that I hated it.

@mangeurdenuage Been there, done that. But by the time Toradora came out, torrents and direct downloads were a better alternative.