Comment on Pixelfed leaks private posts from other Fediverse instances - fiona fokus

• RobotToaster@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There’s easily over a thousand fediverse instances at this point, having to whitelist them all would be impractical.

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  • queermunist@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Okay but this demonstrates why defaulting to federation is a bad idea, doesn’t it?

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    • melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The issue is that if you don’t default to federation, it becomes essentially impossible for new instances to join the fediverse. A potential new instance would have to go around to every single existing instance and ask to be allowlisted, which is onerous for both the new instances and for the large server admins who would be getting tons of requests. It would also essentially kill selfhosting as a result.

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    • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The entire point of the fediverse is to federate. Not federating by default kills discoverability and the potential for discoverability among other things

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    • RobotToaster@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It demonstrates that nothing on the fediverse is private, and bad hacks that pretend otherwise are a terrible idea.

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    • Microw@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Imo it demonstrates that for certain threat models the fediverse simply doesn’t have the 100% secure answers.

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    • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Defaulting to not federating is what the major email providers currently do, and is why email has now become a centralised service that you cannot practically self host.

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