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I've complained about the 'trusted instance concept' too ... I've a horrible feeling that it exists to protect piefed.social from the DB bloat it inflicts on everyone else, lol.
how does that affect db bloat? or rather, how does it protect from that?
piefed.social is hard-coded in the source as a 'trusted instance', so other PieFed instances won't ever send votes to it using alternative profiles. Untrusted instances that receive traffic from PieFed instances will end up generating one row for the main user, and one row for the alt user. It's typically only one extra row (per user), but I think that unticking and ticking 'Vote privately' in settings generates a new random username for the alt everytime, so it could end up being more.
That's probably inherited from the past, from a time where Piefed.social was the only active instance around. Quite a few of those settings are being made customizable in the last few days, so that every instance can configure it as they wish.
...diligently taking notes...
I am going to take a closer look at this.
Thank you!