@atomicpoet Do mastodon blocks work by IP address or domain name? Seems you don’t really need lots of servers, just lots of domain names pointing to a few servers that route traffic appropriately.

@atomicpoet I don't disagree - it's probably not a practical or cost-effective strategy /now/. My hunch, tho', is that it will get easier & cheaper to spin up servers as the 'verse matures. A possible side-effect of that, I worry, would be making it easier for trolls to troll.

@atomicpoet @RufusJCooter But do you actually need to spin up an instance? Or do you just need to write a program that acts like a server enough to federate?

And if my "fake" server software is only posting, not reading in any messages, how much server HP would it actually need? Seems lightweight to me. My laptop could probably run 100+ "instances/bots"

@atomicpoet @RufusJCooter and that is ignoring the fact that they would also have to pay for different domains name if they wanted the bots to truly be effective and not just blocked by blocking one domain name.