• bane_killgrind@kbin.social
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    4 months ago

    I wonder what it would take to run a hostile lemmy instance, just designed to drag people you dislike via putting words in their mouth.

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      4 months ago

      I think ActivityPub requires that a message purported to be from some user needs to be signed with their private key (in practice, the key that their instance keeps track of on their behalf).

      I’m not 100% sure of that but I think it’s how it works. So you would have to entice the people you dislike into making users on your instance, or else come up with some other way of gaming the system. (And, I think you’d be defederated from everyone almost instantly.)