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There's been plenty of discussion on defederation.

  1. https://sh.itjust.works/post/103490
  2. https://sh.itjust.works/post/216888
  3. https://sh.itjust.works/post/229169
  4. https://sh.itjust.works/post/151703

I propose we defederate no instance other than those with egregiously illegal content such as CP. Note that I know of no such instances.

As of the moment of this post, the only defederated instance is lemmygrad.ml, so voting Yea would refederate them. It's a genocide-denying Marxist instance.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nay.

"Everything that is legal" sounds good in theory, but isn't great in practice. Holding instances to some reasonable minimum threshold is important to foster a community. We shouldn't set that bar too low (or too high).

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

“Everything that is legal” sounds good in theory, but isn’t great in practice

I have yet to see any reason to agree with this

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

Setting up an instance that is nothing but a bot farm that spams communities is "legal".

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So ban spam accounts and don't fucking make it difficult for everyone else to rose other instances, especially those that aren't even spam.

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

If I own the instance I can create thousands of bot accounts faster than you can block them.