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If someone was abusing it they'd rapidly get defederated.
But that's a manual process. It would be nice to monitor the federation status of all servers and slap an algorithm like K-Means on that to find clusters and outliers.
You could then decide which ones to autonatically federate/defederate based on that data.
I'm going to look into that, maybe I can write the part that gathers the data.
Anything that makes Lemmy's "immune response" quicker has to be a plus.
It's a manual action, that must be taken for all instances AFAIK. An attacking software could pretend to be thousands of new instances, and a DDOS attack against lemmy is something that already happened in the past.