fedi Dec 19, 2022
If or when #Tumblr joins the fediverse what attitude do you think your instance should adopt:
Full federation
50%
Limited federation aka *silenced*
20.8%
No federation aka *blocked*
6.9%
see results
22.2%
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Show threadSean TilleyDec 19, 2022

@fedi I'm supportive of the concept of federating with Tumblr, but it would end up being the largest instance in the fediverse, with millions of users.

I'm concerned that the sheer amount of activities coming out of one place could DDoS modestly-sized instances, unless we all come up with a way to safely deal with so much inbound traffic on the federated timeline.

A temporary bandaid might be to disable the Federated / Whole Known Network tab, and have actors only start ingesting activities from people they follow + boosted activities + followed tags. Even then, that might be a reach.

Show threadilinamorato

@deadsuperhero @fedi as the Fediverse (and particularly Mastodon) grows, this is absolutely a problem they're going to have to deal with eventually. Tumblr (and maybe Flickr?) federating moves up the timeline, but Mastodon.Social or some other instance was going to prompt that change eventually anyway.

Some sort of partial or double-opt-in federation type is almost inevitable. Might as well figure it out before Twitter or some other really massive service gets sold again and federates.

Dec 19, 2022 at 1:46pmMastodon for Android