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@ jerry @infosec.exchange

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Recovering CISOMay have an orchid problemBad photographyWorse dad jokesThe worst Infosec hot takesPodcast: https://defensivesecurity.org/Blog: https://infosec.engineering/Twitter: @maliciouslinkhttps://infosec.exchange/ Admininfosec #security #cybersecurity #risk #fedi22…and for fucks sake, be nice to each other. We are only here for a brief time. Make it enjoyable.

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  • Help understanding video and image size restrictions

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  • @hitstun connections to mbin are super heavy weight, which is fine if it were legit people browsing, but the AI scrapers endlessly hammering the site with hundreds or thousands of requests per minute ends up taking the whole site down. I’ll try opening it up again and see what happens and try to block as many crawlers as I can, but it’s been hundreds of net blocks in the past interspersed with other actual fediverse instances. Let’s see what happens.

  • Clarifying Costs of Running the Fediverse with Jerry from Infosec.Exchange

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  • We have to solve the money problem!

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  • @rglullis I think the donation model is working ok at this scale, but I don’t believe it will scale up to the hypothetical future we were discussing on the show where the fediverse became the social media platform for the masses. There are somewhere around 1 to 2 million active fediverse users, depending on how you count. If that were 100x or 1000x larger, we would simply crumble - I don’t think the general architecture scales that well (think of all the duplicate storage that we end up paying for across various instance) and generally, people who use social media are far less concerned with the core value propositions of the fediverse, like privacy and whatnot. I know that’s hard to accept, but we’re here because that’s how we think. So no, I don’t think we will have a future where a 500,000,000 active user fediverse can be operated off of donations from members. I also very much doubt that people would pay a fee to be here when corporate social media alternatives are “free” to them

  • We have to solve the money problem!

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  • So... apologies if this isn't the right place to ask and I will immediately go to the right place if there is a better one... but I have a question about fedia.io

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  • @Chozo @Novamdomum can you DM me your IP address? The site has been under a heavy ddos by scrapers and I think my script to identify those scrapers got a little carried away.