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Defederated from Feddit.nl. Update: Refederated! (self.lemmyworld)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by lwadmin to c/lemmyworld

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Lately we have been dealing with a few abusive members from Feddit.nl and we were unable to get in touch with the instance administrator.

Part of the problem is the instance's open registrations which do not require you to enter an e-mail address during signup. This in combination with an inactive admin is a recipe for abuse.

We hope this is only temporary but we have to do this to protect our users.

Edit: we use fediseer, have a look https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/lemmy.world

Edit 2: We got in touch with the Feddit.nl admin. Email requirements were added to the sign-up process and we're setting up a communication channel. So that means we are federating with Feddit.nl again!

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[–] Izzy 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If we could control instance level blocking on a user level it would be much more feasible.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In general sure, but not for problems like this. That wouldn't address the issue in the OP at all.

[–] Izzy 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It won't protect a server from getting illegal content on their drives. Best to defederate if that is happening and can't be dealt with otherwise. If you have some other method of dealing with illegal content on your server and wanted to host a Lemmy instance that is federated with everything it would only be appealing to me if I could block instances myself.

[–] antik 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't get this? You understand that it won't protect a server from getting illegal content on their drives but you still want a server that is federated with everything so that you yourself can choose what to block?

[–] Izzy 2 points 1 year ago

Those two things don't seem conflicting. Some bad actor right now could upload illegal content to lemmy.world. It's not like lemmy.world can defederate with itself as a solution. It must deal with it by deleting the content. An instance could potentially delete illegal content coming from everywhere on the lemmyverse. This would take a lot of work so if you didn't want to bother doing that for instances other than your own you would defederate.

If some instance owner for whatever reason decided to take on this work either manually or with some automated process that allowed an instance to exist that is federated with everything, but clear of illegal content then it would be an appealing instance. Assuming I could curate my own instance block list.

[–] antik 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That won't change how we would handle instances with bad actors?

[–] Izzy 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure. This isn't a solution to the problem lemmy.world is having. I just think this feature should exist.

[–] antik 3 points 1 year ago

Well I heard that is coming in the next Lemmy update

[–] PrinceHabib72 2 points 1 year ago

Absolutely agreed. I hope that becomes a feature soon, I know it is or was being worked on.