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Re:Mastodon’s Eternal September Begins by Kye on Thursday November 10, 2022 @04:04PM (#33553350)
All it takes is one person to notice for a #fediblock notice to propagate. The more instances, the harder it is to hide.
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Re:Mastodon’s Eternal September Begins by simfree on Saturday November 12, 2022 @03:40PM (#33576833)
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.

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