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[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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.

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.world -3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Out of curiosity, why are you here, then?

[–] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.world -3 points 2 years 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.

[–] planish@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well how do you think it should work then?

[–] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.world -2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[–] mojo@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What do you think towns and cities are

Stupid fucking ideas.

[–] vbb@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] RickRussell_CA@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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

[–] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years 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.