Comment on Lemmy.world Should Defederate with Threads
Pxtl@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
This is like saying “my email provider should block all emails from Gmail”.
And they can hoover your data right now. Like, you think bots aren’t spidering the site already? It’s a public website.
That’s entirely different. As an individual, I have the choice to send emails to, or block emails from, Gmail.com.
But on Lemmy, if I am on an instance, and I don’t want Threads.net to get a copy of my content or posts (or have my content or posts show up on Threads.net in the future), then tough shit for me, my only option is to either go silent or move to an instance that has defederated from Threads.
People keep making the email argument, but it is not the same thing at all.
If a user blocks a domain I suppose their content isn't send to that server anymore I hope?
It is. The user just won’t see any content from the server they blocked.
How do you know? We should fix this on the software level.
They won’t see any communities from the server they block. Users are not blocked in domain blocking.
Users can now block instances. Similar to community blocks, it means that any posts from communities which are hosted on that instance are hidden. However the block doesn’t affect users from the blocked instance, their posts and comments can still be seen normally in other communities.
Nope Lemmy’s blocking system is cosmetic only. It’s very much useless against defending from real malicious users. I assume the purpose it was built for was under the assumption that it was going to be used exclusively by easily offended snowflakes, which is backed up by the way that most users treat a person’s claims regarding a malicious user or malicious instance.
PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I actually think this demonstrates the exact problem. The reason you can’t do that at the email levels because Google has taken over the entire email space. Ideally, we don’t let threads do that.
Nowadays you have services like Outlook blocking emails Tutanota for “spam protection”. I’d really rather threads not get so big that they can start dictating how the Feduverse operates in that fashion.
Pxtl@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Would email be better if you couldn’t send/receive emails from people with Gmail accounts?
PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It would objectively be more secure in terms of data privacy.
Better, in that regard, is subjective. It sure wouldn’t be more convenient, but that’s why we left Reddit and came to Lemme in the first place. It sure wasn’t because of convenience.
beetus@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Please elaborate.
registrert@lemmy.sambands.net 6 months ago
Maalus@lemmy.world 6 months ago
This is the real world and people won’t “just ditch gmail”.