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PSA: beehaw defederated from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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We still federate, but god knows how long that will last. They have defederated nearly 400 instances and they sound lile theyre losing the plot

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

But it is absolutely true that telephone networks and email servers that get used too much for spam calls/messages will get blacklisted by other providers.

If your email provider gets a bad reputation then your emails will get blocked (that is a lot of how spam filtering works). That is pretty analogous.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

This is different because it bifurcates the network. End users will have to understand which Lemmy providers federate with whichever others in a way they don't have to with email today. It also feels like the bar to classifying these two providers as malicious is a lot lower than with email.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The difference is you'd usually get some sort of error message if your phone call doesn't go through, or your email bounces.

What's really needed is some sort of warning symbol meaning "this person can't read your comments".