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    But if they do it the “proper” way, they won’t be able to grab the data if instances defederate from them, right? And that’s what the majority of instances will do.

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      Assuming you know which instances are the ones they’re collecting data from. It could be any instance.

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        You are absolutely correct there, in that hypothetical scenario if they were to attempt to hide their traffic among normal instance activities.

        To add a bit more detail to my previous answer, there were some prior discussions about this topic, citing some of the most popular instances of the entire Threadiverse having been targeted by their normal DDOS-like approach:

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      I do not know enough about the ActivityPub protocol to answer that. I did think that federation at least used to be the default many years ago but aren’t sure about the current status of that. Indeed detection and subsequent blocking will always be the cat and mouse game that is played but use of ActivityPub might at least delay the former part? And how would anyone find out, compared to e.g. if not a single person household then at least a small community instance just wanting to pull down all the content across the Fediverse to read up on?