All the communities on lemmy.lukeog.com are mirrors of Reddit boards. lemmy.lukeog.com does not accept posts from Lemmy users – only its bot may post and comment, and its posts and comments are just mirrors of Reddit posts and comments.

This doesn’t seem like a useful way to use Lemmy. It’s more like just a mirror of Reddit, in which case archive.is or web.archive.org would be more useful, in my opinion.

Better not to waste bandwidth and resources on this, in my opinion.

  • Ech
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    2410 months ago

    Seems like the exact sort of situation user side instance blocking is great for.

  • HobbitFoot
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    1910 months ago

    Defederation should be reserved for cases when federation can harm the host instance.

    Unless the cost of federation becomes that high, I’d recommend keeping federated.

  • nocturne
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    1210 months ago

    Sounds like that alien top instance a while back.

    • TerribleTortoise
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      10 months ago

      Lemmy is distributed across different instances. Instances can “federate” with each other, which means they share content and users with each other. “Defederating” means to remove that content sharing with the other instance.
      As an example, let’s say that Instance-X contains unregulated hate speech on it. Other instances can remove federation from Instance-X so their community posts no longer get shared to/from them.

  • @Makeitstop
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    410 months ago

    It seems odd to not even allow commenting, but I’m not seeing how this does any harm. If anything, I’d rather have access to it for those few situations where reddit is still the only good option to find what I’m looking for. Better than giving reddit any activity.

    Plus, if this makes it easier to crosspost interesting content to local communities then I’d say it’s definitely a good thing.

  • @kernelle
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    310 months ago

    If you want reddit posts go to reddit? If you like the content, we are a content aggregator so cross platform posts are encouraged? Using bots like that isn’t any different from any other freebooting.

    • candyman337
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      410 months ago

      I can see the benefit of it, just wanting the info without giving Reddit any traffic. But I think yeah if you wanna do that have an instance that doesn’t federate or something

      • @kernelle
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        19 months ago

        Don’t get me wrong, I get why they do it. I’m just saying they should be curating content, not blindly reposting.