• old_machine_breaking_apart@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 months ago

    they can perhaps create instances, pay malicious users, try some embrace, extend, extinguish approach or something, but they can’t manipulate the code running on the instances we use, so they can’t have direct power over it. Or am I missing something? I’m new to the fediverse.

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      6 months ago

      There’s very little to prevent them just pretending to be average users and very little preventing someone from just signing up a bunch of separate accounts to a bunch of separate instances.

      No great automated way to tell whether someone is here legitimately.

      • bitfucker@programming.dev
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        6 months ago

        Yeah, and that is true for a lot of service. Sybil attack is indeed quite hard to prevent since malicious users can blend with legitimate ones.