You should listen to the Masterplan podcast as well. This has been in the works since the 70s. And I guess there was the business plot in the 30s before that. You always have to be vigilant or the elites will take the opportunity to install their own dictator.
Kakistocracy could sort of fit that bill.
Looks like yes, if you look for the stories. ICE is terrible no matter the administration.
Another one: https://archive.md/AKDGo
Once something’s out there, you can’t do anything to convince people of the opposite. I think Wakefield even got convicted for this as well.
Might be just someone wanting to highlight an architecture issue that allows someone to spam everyone.
It is showing that there’s a lot of work to be done to deal with the spam issue. It’s basically relying on every individual instance admin to moderate their stuff and defederate from other instances that drop the ball. If Lemmy gets big enough for spammers to really try to attack it, the admins will quickly get overwhelmed.
Yeah, it depends entirely on how many things you’re tracking and how many people need to access it. It’s probably not the right tool here, but sometimes it just is.