• @Clbull
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    405 months ago

    This is why I believe federation should be an opt-in process rather than servers being federated by default.

    Some of you may remember when Lemmy World was flooded with CSAM by other hostile instances and had to temporarily disable image uploads.

    • 👁️👄👁️
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      565 months ago

      That would destroy the already limited content of the fedi. It’s like people hate content discovery for some reason.

      • @pinkdrunkenelephants
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        -365 months ago

        It’s almost like federation is a stupid fucking idea that doesn’t work

        It’s almost like it’s fundamentally broken and no one else wants to admit it

        • Urist
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          185 months ago

          Out of curiosity, why are you here, then?

          • @pinkdrunkenelephants
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            -85 months ago

            Because I refuse to give up on speaking the truth about the matter, and how corrupt the admins are, and demonstrating the very serious flaws and problems Lemmy as a platform has (there are a lot of ways people can exploit Lemmy to be a massive douche canoe, for starters).

            Because truth is valuable for its own sake even if no one will listen.

            People really ought to go back to separate websites and small forums, and get away from federation in general. It doesn’t do any real good.

            • Urist
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              25 months ago

              Thanks for sharing. Good luck 👍

    • VBB
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      505 months ago

      there are peoples who create instances for their families, who is going to manually federate with all these small instances?

      • RickRussell_CA
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        55 months ago

        Nominally, you’d need to go through some request process to request federation with other large instances. Then they’d vet your configuration before adding you.

        • @[email protected]
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          5 months ago

          Would be nice if they had some form of agreement where you can get accepted by one big instance, you get accepted by all. Or maybe even a standard order form and application which you can send to all major instances with the click of a button

    • Margot Robbie
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      425 months ago

      Lemmy supports both blacklist and whitelist federation, but the only large instance that uses whitelist federation as far as I know currently is Hexbear.