It might keep happening, but there will inevitably be diminishing returns.
If you DDOS an instance, what effect will that have on other instances? They probably won’t get be able to comment on posts from that intsance, which is pretty much what you already get when the servers get overloaded. Meanwhile, other instances run fine, and they display the last update from that fed (excluding any edits, which are only displayed if you’re on that local fed anyway).
I’m sure it will be a growing problem, however the problem will inherently be localised.
What I really want to see is some way of aligning fed comms across different instances. For example, the “Lemmy” comm, or “AskLemmy” or “Memes” comm could be combined across all Lemmy instances, so long as they are all under the control of the same mod team, or at least a group of teams working together. Federation shouldn’t be completely exclusive and separate, unless it is advantegous to be; there should be the option of combining feds, perhaps not by default but at least if desired. The word “Federation” itself implies a central organisation, made up of separate yet coordinated entities, after all.
It might keep happening, but there will inevitably be diminishing returns.
If you DDOS an instance, what effect will that have on other instances? They probably won’t get be able to comment on posts from that intsance, which is pretty much what you already get when the servers get overloaded. Meanwhile, other instances run fine, and they display the last update from that fed (excluding any edits, which are only displayed if you’re on that local fed anyway).
I’m sure it will be a growing problem, however the problem will inherently be localised.
What I really want to see is some way of aligning fed comms across different instances. For example, the “Lemmy” comm, or “AskLemmy” or “Memes” comm could be combined across all Lemmy instances, so long as they are all under the control of the same mod team, or at least a group of teams working together. Federation shouldn’t be completely exclusive and separate, unless it is advantegous to be; there should be the option of combining feds, perhaps not by default but at least if desired. The word “Federation” itself implies a central organisation, made up of separate yet coordinated entities, after all.