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Reblogged by fromjason ("Jason"):
mikedev@fediversity.site ("Mike Macgirvin 🖥️") wrote:
- We don't have 'followers-only' posts in the same way Mastodon does. You can create a private post to your followers, but it's actually private and only your followers can access it. This is enforced by the webserver. Anybody who isn't a follower gets a 403 Permission denied.2. I once worked for a large corporate provider and am a veteran of the first browser wars. I don't trust anything large corporations say. I watch what they do. Meta have always been a mob of sneaky bastards, so I just assume they are going to lie. It's in their DNA. 3. It depends on your software. If you follow one Threads user and make everything private, there's no cost differential. If you make a public post that goes to the same Threads user and it goes viral, you could have a problem no matter what size server you have. ActivityPub is a very chatty protocol. If ten million or 50 million requests hit mastodon.social in short order, it will cause the same amount of pain as if they hit a rasberry pi running in your garage. But DDoS has been an issue for a long time and there are mitigations for every major web server. It isn't something that magically appeared with the fediverse.
Basically, corporate software is indistinguishable from malware. Since you need to stop malware anyway (or suffer the consequences), let's just kill two birds with one stone.