I want the #Fediverse to grow. But out of curiosity, how well would the Fediverse scale? What would happen if the current user base increased by a factor of 10, 100, or 1000?
And if the answer is "bad things", what would need to be done to make the Fediverse cope with such an expanded user base?
(For the purpose of this thought exercise, assume that each specific Fediverse software implementation would likewise multiply their user base by this factor, albeit spread out over more instances.)
@juergen_hubert I'm pretty sure that the safety tools will require a great deal of rethinking.
Currently safety is dumped as a workload onto instance owners; instance owners who are not given any reasonable tools for doing that job. I'm an admin over here, for example, on gamerplus and in July to August we got flooded by a bunch of AI-based bot-made accounts. It was a daily chore to go through the new accounts and decided quickly if a new account was a fake bot account or a real one.
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