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Fair point, would be an incredibly easy vector for abuse in any other way. Good thing I'm not a software engineer.

Curious - would boosts from users on non-blocked servers bypass the block here? In other words, does traffic for boosts go via the original instance, or is it direct between the boosting and the receiving servers?

Obviously they won't give too much of a shit and they're not going to send any mail, they'll just block the server like they would anyway. They are, however, going to be annoyed to be treated as insignificant nobodies. So all in all not a bad idea.

Courts, traditionally.

Let's see how the lawsuits work out.

I think this is a great idea, and something that should probably be incorporated in a wide variety of ActivityPub integrations.

I know at least Funkwhale already includes license information - maybe it could be integrated in a way that is compatible with how it's solved there?

Not to forget those of us not on lemmy! ;)

In the end what this all produces is freedom of choice - we are no longer constrained to using whatever service has users, but we can use whatever service we want to be using. The users/content will be there independently.

The EU is pushing antitrust against tech monopolies for all it's worth. For anyone with half an eye on the EU it's glaringly obvious why Meta is doing this, and all the conspiracy theorists stumbling over each other on the Fediverse just look like clowns.

It's not about EEE, it's not about flooding the Fediverse with trolls (?) or about taking over the market share of Mastodon (??). It's about making a genuine-looking claim that they are not monopolist. Same reason they are working on the Signal protocol for WhatsApp.

It's not exactly rocket science. It's just successful regulation.

He has the power to create his own instance with his own rules; he has the power to leave for an instance run by like-minded people.

And other people have the power to block that instance should it poison their internet experience. :)

And if I as a user want to join a service that does not feature nazi content at all, I should have that option as well.

I don't want to have to handle this shit on my own: I want admins and mods to do it for me. If I'm not happy with their work I'll leave for another instance. But if I have to block the Nazis myself I would consider that a huge problem and probably wouldn't use the service at all.

Or, hopefully, some ended up on federated platforms. Like yourself - I'm happy you're here!