Gregory's Server@mariusor also this could be abused for getting mutual friends (intersecting friend lists). Just gotta send several hundred IDs 😂
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 @mariusor as VK shows, some people just add everyone as a friend. VK has a limit of 10000 friends per account. Also, are you sure about *arbitrary* fields? I store everything in a relational database, so I can only really query on fields that have indexes on them unless I'm okay with it going through the entire table row by row (I'm not). Maybe you should specify a response for when the query client asked for isn't possible to easily satisfy.  @mariusor individual server? No. Most (all?) fediverse projects won't scale to a typical high-load infrastructure — most you could do is have the DB on a separate server. But you absolutely can have thousands, and even millions, of followers from all over the fediverse. Eugen, for example, has 467586 followers. @mariusor what I'm saying is that there's really no upper bound to the length of a collection. Especially when it's a collection that's the publicly-appendable kind. Group members, walls, forum topics, photo albums in groups, all those things. And you don't need a powerful server to host a collection with a million elements either. |
@grishka Yes, I must admit I haven't thought the matter all the way through, just the immediate benefits.
I don't see that as abuse, but a good use of the API.