Comment on Should instances defederate with other instances anymore if we can filter instances out on our end?

Dehydrated@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• ttmrichter@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Replace “communist tankie shit” with “CSAM” or “torture porn” or such and see if that makes any sense to you (keeping in mind that all content from your “whitelisted” stuff is stored on the server owner’s hardware).

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  • Dehydrated@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ok, you’re right, I didn’t think about that. Let’s just say that federation/defederation is a tricky question.

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    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Seems pretty simple. If you want to be able to see the content on an instance that everyone else has defederated from, create an account on that instance as well. Apps allow for pretty seamless usage of multiple accounts. That’s the easy alternative to the constant “make your own instance and run it yourself response”

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      • xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        What’s the point of federation if you need to make multiple accounts anyway?

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      • Dehydrated@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I think self hosting is easier than messing around with multiple accounts on different instances

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• scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s called setting up your own instance and running it how you want to

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  • Dehydrated@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Kinda agree, but chances are high that instances like Beehaw will be unwilling to federate with you

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    • ttmrichter@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So it’s freedom of association you’re opposed to then?

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    • Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But isn’t that their own choice then, too?

      I mean, why should they have their freedom restricted?

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• PlasterAnalyst@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The way activity pub works is that a user subscribes to something and then the content gets copied to your server. If you allow a user to subscribe to whatever they want, then you're just going to get illegal content stored on your server.

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