Hello, sh.itjust.works community. I am curious what you think about ClubsAll, and whether you think we should stay federated with them. A few other Lemmy instances have recently defederated so this seems like a timely topic for discussion.

In short, ClubsAll is an ActivityPub-compatible Reddit clone. The site currently has one-way federation with no attribution: ClubsAll pulls content from Lemmy and displays it as local ClubsAll content. For example, you can visit https://clubsall.com/c/196 and there is no indication that the content is from https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/c/196.

Here are relevant posts with more information and context:

In the first post the ClubsAll founder commented that they plan to eventually have two-way federation, and to make the project open source. Whether those things actually happens is anyone’s guess.

What do you think?

  • Blaze (he/him)English
    3•23 days ago

    But, to be honest, what I am bothered by, is the fact that the website doesn’t give an attribution in the UI about which instance certain users are from and which instance certain certain community are from.

    https://slrpnk.net/comment/12723802

    blocked for technical reason: scraper.

    https://moist.catsweat.com/m/[email protected]/t/670763/-/comment/5352039

    My concern in this is the integrity of the fediverse and its users. Yours, apparently, is “saving” a platform that leeches content off federated platforms to make a buck off those users. I don’t see much chance of agreement on “what is fair”.

    https://kbin.earth/m/[email protected]/t/741461/-/comment/4153987

    Can’t have it both ways of leeching the posts from other large instances while simultaneously making it an exclusive club where only local users can participate, it goes contrary to the social contract and spirit of the Fediverse.

    https://lemmy.ca/comment/13413542

    • @vinay_clubsall
      0•19 days ago

      A few others have expressed concerns with attribution. So as suggested we will be changing username from /u/xyz to /u/[email protected] . I hope that addresses your concern.

      As you know, the comments are federated. Also, our development was blocked due to sublinks development being blocked. Also as I mentioned elsewhere we have 10 users with no posts, so users are missing out on exactly 0 posts. I am not having it both ways. At present we are sharing what we have (comments and 0 posts).

      Also, we are working on making it better. I agree definition of fairness varies, but giving some time to new instances, especially the ones who are developing from scratch, is fairly reasonable. Let’s say average 1 comment a day (i.e. 30 comments a month) can be seen by everyone (as we are federating) and is a very basic ask without hurting any other instances in community.

      • Blaze (he/him)English
        2•19 days ago

        If you fix the attribution, that would probably be good enough for a lot of people.

        In the meantime, be ready for this kind of posts every 2-3 months.

        • @vinay_clubsall
          1•11 days ago

          We fixed the attribution. Now usernames show up as /u/<user>@<server> (rather than earlier /u/<user> and no server). Also the server name can be seen in the right bar.

          Since we fixed what bothered you the most, can you not make the posts encouraging others to de-federate? If something bothers others, let them make a post or talk to me and I can address their issues. Is that fair expectation?