I set up friendica as my first foray on to the fediverse. It worked well, but as it turns out doesn’t work that well with Lemmy, which was my main usecase. Well whilst trying to fix DNS issues setting up a Lemmy instance instead, I noticed my DNS logs were rather full. My Unbound DNS was getting 40k requests every 10 mins to *.activitypub-troll.cf. I don’t know who or what that is, but blocking it didn’t reduce the activity. At first I thought it was something to do with Lemmy as I’d forgotten I still had Friendica running. Thankfully stopping the Friendica service reduced the DNS request back to normal.
So if you’ve set something up recently, you might want to check if there have been any consequences in your service logs
100%, federation is incredibly spammy in its current implementation. I don’t think it’s even necessary for an instance to be This Informed about what’s happening on other instances - what we really need is an identity that can span multiple instances, we don’t need to have all the content from all federated instances available on all federated instances. That’s useful for moderation, but that can be solved without the tight coupling and constant noise that it requires now.