If the LLM instance doesn’t talk to anyone, you’re right, but there seems little point in building an instance that talks to nobody.
This leaves us with an instance that does talk to other instances, presumably responding to posts, making its own and subscribing to communities. This already costs money for each “touched” instance.
At that point the administrator of an instance that doesn’t want to federated with the LLM instance, has to defederate from it, updating their instance and then still getting access requests from the LLM instance when it attempts to do the reply, post, community thing as described before.
Even us discussing the phenomenon right now takes server resources across the fediverse.
In other words, as I said, there is always a cost to everyone.
Give moltbook a try. That seems to be going real well. Just don’t bring that slop to the fediverse.
If those posts are unlisted, what would be the big deal about that slop being on the Fediverse?
Additional server load? The Fediverse ain’t running on vcbux
Load on which servers?
All of them.
If nobody on your server follows them, they don’t cause any load to your server. Also admins can suspend the whole instance.
It’s still going to waste electricity etc, but it can easily be cut off the fediverse.
I understand.
My point didn’t state that all instances would be affected equally, just that there’s an effect everywhere.
There isn’t an effect if nobody on a server interacts with or queries unlisted posts or their posters on a different instance.
Let me ask you this.
If the LLM instance doesn’t talk to anyone, you’re right, but there seems little point in building an instance that talks to nobody.
This leaves us with an instance that does talk to other instances, presumably responding to posts, making its own and subscribing to communities. This already costs money for each “touched” instance.
At that point the administrator of an instance that doesn’t want to federated with the LLM instance, has to defederate from it, updating their instance and then still getting access requests from the LLM instance when it attempts to do the reply, post, community thing as described before.
Even us discussing the phenomenon right now takes server resources across the fediverse.
In other words, as I said, there is always a cost to everyone.