this post was submitted on 03 Jun 2023
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The nature of federated protocols gives the instances with the largest popularity more influence over the protocol. It's also not great for privacy or the ability of message senders remove to prior messages sent to other nodes in the network. There are problems for smaller instances being DDOS'd by simply having a popular account on another instance drawing attention to a message or account on the smaller instance either benignly or maliciously. Among other concerns.
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