I hope this is the right place to discuss a potential feature for lemmy.

I’ve been reading a lot of the defederation calls from instances and their users. More often than not, this was due to very specific elements of those instances; trolls, extremists, etc… But in my opinion, defederating a whole instance because of that is a sad pity.

I was thinking a way to solve this would be to have a federated blacklist. Instance Admins would ban user accounts from their instance and that would be added to a list that could be consulted/automatically used by other instance owners. They would ideally be able to set parameters, like banning users from a list accepted by a number of other instances, a specific reason for the ban, or banned by specific instances.

This would lessen the administrative load, protect instances, allow different instances with shared concerns to help each other while allowing their own users to interact with the ‘compatible’ users and communities from other instances.

Just an idea and wanted to bring it up and hear some thoughts.

  • @[email protected]
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    131 year ago

    Idk ban lists are a gateway for abuse especially for minorities, see the gamergate ban lists which included trans people for no reason

    • @[email protected]OP
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      11 year ago

      This is why I was suggesting you would have conditions to apply these bans, for example that other admins you trust are applying them

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        Yeah maybe there is a system to make them work, I also don’t like taking lightly defederation, however there should be a strict control of the rules for adding people to the list