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Director of Linux Foundation IT. Currently in charge of kernel.org infra.

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randahl , (edited ) to random
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Do you feel we would lose anything, if more Mastodon servers allowed longer posts? On many servers the limit is 500 characters, which means we sometimes see texts that span multiple posts.
Would more characters be good or bad?

monsieuricon ,

@randahl Posts on social.kernel.org may have up to 31337 characters. ;)

monsieuricon ,

@randahl It's meaningful in the context of kernel hacker subculture. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet

monsieuricon , to random

I've been admining Linux systems for 25 years, and I still have to check which one it is every time.

monsieuricon , to random

FYI, the Fedi spam problem is only starting out. It won't take much effort for someone to write a payload running on random compromised webservers to send copious amounts of spam via activitypub, making blocklists ineffective.

We will basically need to implement all the same anti-abuse stuff we're already doing for email in order to cope with it on the fediverse -- greylisting, dnsbl, domain authentication, etc.

Sadly, the only way this won't happen is if ActivityPub stays sufficiently niche to make other targets more popular for spammers.

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