Comment on Should instances defederate with other instances anymore if we can filter instances out on our end?
ttmrichter@lemmy.world 8 months agoReplace “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).
Dehydrated@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Ok, you’re right, I didn’t think about that. Let’s just say that federation/defederation is a tricky question.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 8 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”
xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
What’s the point of federation if you need to make multiple accounts anyway?
Carighan@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Federation isn’t the same as “practically the same server”. That’s just Twitter or Reddit you’re describing then, a single fully unified pot of information that is still spread out over a vast amount of individual servers for only for parallelization and redundancy reasons.
Federated applications like Lemmy are, as the name implies, federated. Not merged or unified or so.
Dehydrated@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Exactly
Dehydrated@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I think self hosting is easier than messing around with multiple accounts on different instances