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Sharing a little post I did about online threats to consumers, because its useful, and also testing the effect of Request Amplification in Mastodon as per my previous post
https://300m.com/security/online-threats-to-consumers/
Online threats to consumers

Online threats to consumers come in many forms, such as viruses, malware, phishing scams, and ransomware. These threats can compromise the security of a person's personal information, such as their login credentials and credit card numbers, and can lead to identity theft, financial loss, and other i...

Marc Kranat
OMG I just realized Mastodon is what Twitter would be if it were Canadian

I'm really not worried about Mastodon scaling issues at all.

When I left Twitter in 2008, we had roughly twice as many users as the current combined Mastodon network, all running on one MySQL server that had the same specs as a high-end 2013 MacBook Pro, plus roughly 10 web servers and 5 queue servers.

To be fair, growth wasn't as rapid, and we had local-infra advantages over federated systems, but these problems are solvable and I have no doubt will be fixed soon.

*Hugops to all admins!*