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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • It is not, but a write amplification of 36704:1 is one hell of an exploitable surface.

    With that same Raspberry Pi and a single 1gbit connection you could also do 333333 post requests of 3 KB in a single second made on fake accounts with preferably a fake follower on a lot of fediverse instances. That would result in those fediverse servers theoretically requesting 333333 * 114MB = ~38Gigabyte/s. At least for as long as you can keep posting new posts for a few minutes and the servers hosting still have bandwidth. DDosing with a ‘botnet’ of fediverse servers/accounts made easy!

    I’m actually surprised it hasn’t been tried yet now that I think about it…