this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2023
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If load is that big of a problem then pretty much all instances are in a big trouble because all you need is ONE person that decides to run some bots and it's done anyway.
Well yeah, this is a fair point. It's on the instance admins to vet signups and monitor usage. In general the fediverse has a lot of potential for easy DOS attacks, it's one of the main weak points.
I will send you my post on how we got 550 000 bot accounts in 3 days lol
https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/post/176547