All it takes is one person to notice for a #fediblock notice to propagate. The more instances, the harder it is to hide.
Re:Mastodon’s Eternal September Begins
by simfree on Saturday November 12, 2022 @03:40PM
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With OP's perspective services like Cloudflare, Akamai and anyone else trying to mitigate malicious traffic should just give up.
This extremely nihilistic view is not productive, and ignores that 99% success in mitigating bad actors is much better than no mitigation.
A privacy model that depends on "admins would probably notice something fishy" is not a model users should rely on.