Comment on Opinions wanted: defederating with bot spam instances
Kalcifer@lemm.ee 9 months agoI would vote nay for defederating from them. While I personally found their content annoying, someone else may actually find it uesful. I blocked the users, and the problem was solved. This issue may arise again, however, if more spam users pop up on these instances than a single user could be expected to realistically deal with. This could possibly again be fixed by the user blocking the instance, but this would have to wait for user-blocking of instances to be implemented.
HelloHotel@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Im generally on the side of reposting for archival and continuation. however, the transparency and half-assed ness and lack of transparency of these services make it a no deal. If I were to remake one (and ive thoght about it) a simple “upload and done” approach is awful
Kalcifer@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Unless an instance has been built with the intention of archiving information, I don’t think that it should be automatically expected that an instance would be in favor of archiving posts from other platforms – there already exists services that archive internet data, and they are better equipped to do so. An instance should outline in their rules whether or not they support such types of posts.
HelloHotel@lemm.ee 9 months ago
I generally agree, ill add that to the post