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The takeaways are great
I haven't read it all yet, but I noticed a bit about pressing charges.
With decentralized social media, currently there is not a risk of some big social media company coming after you when you cause damages. It doesn't have to stay that way though.
What might coordinated legal action look like for the fediverse? They caused a LOT of harm to a lot of people, even if we're just looking at server costs and time spent by volunteers to clean up the mess.
A first step is RBL intergration, a shared blocklist of spam instances that subscribed instances would use to blackhole spam users/traffic/instances. These are used ubiquitously in email spam systems, so there is a precedent in federation systems for it working. We need to stand up an RBL, and then mod Lemmys federation system to work automatically based on the community blocklist.
It does mean that poorly admined instances will get blackholed, breaking their federation, but that's the cost of a healthy network.