[JdeBP]

The interesting thing to consider is that someone who is popular to read may well be as much of a headache for the local sysop as someone who is a frequent target for attacks. How long until they have a 'bot that just 429s all of your posts on sight, do you think? (-:

[JdeBP]

On a more serious note: Given that many user communities in the FediVerse are people conscious of their privacy and of suffering pile-ons by large majorities of outsiders, I wonder how many more examples of this there will be before people start asking the developers for out-of-the-box defaults that simply blacklist all requests that come in with referrer headers containing news.ycombinator.com and other similar "Slashdotting" sites.

It's not beyond the bounds of possibility. Compare https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/15431 .

[morkalork]

Everything has happened before and will happen again: https://www.wired.com/2015/11/how-instagram-solved-its-justi...