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:
- General discussion: Let’s talk about ClubsAll (the ClubsAll founder left comments in this post)
- Recent update to that general discussion: As a reminder, ClubsAll is still showing all of Lemmy’s content without federating back
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?
You have a reasonable argument that it is not possible for everyone to come up with common rules.
The issue is that there are numerous posts instigating and encouraging everyone to defederate. But without a clear definition of what is acceptable. In other words, this approach makes it very hard for anyone from building anything new and participate in federation. So this seems against the goal of “open network” and discourage others from doing anything new.
If that is the goal, then I cannot really win here. If that is not the goal, then I ask not to make such posts and not to encourage everyone to defederate. Anyone who has an issue can reach out to me and I can address their concerns.
Is that reasonable?
Why do you think that is?
Hint: It’s not because people are against federation with new instances.
No. People have told you repeatedly what the main issues are. If you want people to stop criticizing, then perhaps you should actually listen to them.