The downside of everything being federated is that it’s really easy to listen in. Make sure to keep yourself anonymous online!

  • LostXOR@fedia.ioOP
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    2 days ago

    Yeah but the traffic from scraping other instances is going to get noticed real quickly, whereas a small instance federating with everyone else isn’t really suspicious.

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      Doesn’t even have to be an instance.
      Custom code that runs the pubsub protocol… Without publishing anything.
      Everything is open.
      Unless instance admins find the pubsub instance suspicious and defederate it, at which point it won’t be able to receive posts/comments