Over the weekend, hackers targeted federated social networks like Mastodon to carry out ongoing spam attacks that were organized on Discord, and conducted
I don’t get why the Fediverse decided to take on the legal risk and storage cost of downloading every attachment to local servers to be honest. This is why every Lemmy server had to deal with the stupid CSAM spammer rather than just the one server that was being targeted.
Cloud costs have a similar problem, though basic deduplication should work to prevent excessive storage costs. Only the minor egress costs of a couple hundred kilobytes of jpeg really count and they’re not all that bad unless you go with hyper expensive super redundant networks (Amazon, Azure, etc.)
I don’t get why the Fediverse decided to take on the legal risk and storage cost of downloading every attachment to local servers to be honest. This is why every Lemmy server had to deal with the stupid CSAM spammer rather than just the one server that was being targeted.
Cloud costs have a similar problem, though basic deduplication should work to prevent excessive storage costs. Only the minor egress costs of a couple hundred kilobytes of jpeg really count and they’re not all that bad unless you go with hyper expensive super redundant networks (Amazon, Azure, etc.)