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Technical Debt · 1d
Even if the influx of invites don’t take down a server, they still annoy the end user and are otherwise indistinguishable from legitimate requests. Email is an interesting example, just like Matrix...
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Yeah but the bad guys also are more likely to be newly registered, but regardless they are also cheap to black list, you just need to subscribe to a good list, or you know, just let them send stuff and don't show them in the app, until the user is reaaaally bored and want to check it.

We need to ask a hot girl on Instagram how does she feel about message requests... Because I don't get many :D
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Technical Debt · 1d
Blocklists bring back central authorities, hiding everything by default once again risk hiding legitimate requests (hey email also has this issue of putting legitimate senders randomly into the spam folder because of some spam heuristic), at least WoT somewhat alleviates this. Considering centraliz...