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Conspiracy Theory: What if a malbot ~~mAI~~ made itself an instance (coz open source), allowed other malbots registering on bot-administered instance & then join Fediverse? Or just I'm stupid. (self.fediverse)

submitted 2 years ago by xptiger to c/fediverse

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They'll likely be disconnected from other servers by their operators.

[–] xptiger 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

😲☁️ that's great (having no idea about that) and somewhat easy to deal.

[–] xptiger 1 points 2 years ago

I'm thinking of this that it becomes a challenge to admins of instances(servers) to deal malbots registering into these. If an admin fails to terminate or many registered malbots are found in his instance, poor server will be disjoined by Fediverse (sounds harsh).

Btw, I don't like to call "instance" (I can't imagine/picture of anything). I prefer calling "server" (I could imagine as separated CPUs connected by networks).