FYI, lots of users are polling to defederate sh.itjust.works
FYI, lots of users are polling to defederate sh.itjust.works
It was banned on Reddit because it is racist, hatefull and spread Conspiracies. In my new community I expect the exclution of racist communities. It is easy now with defederation. Nazis can do whatever they want on their instances, but the instances I want to be part of should not amplify their shit...
Might- be worth knowing about.....
https://lemmyonline.com/comment/47545
Edit- And... (From beehaw...) https://lemmyonline.com/post/8944
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Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to unblock TheDonald to see what’s worth downvoting.
I peeked at it earlier. Honestly, really isn't anything at all of value in there.
I mean, seriously- it's just a bunch of really crappy news posts... the kind that looks more like spam then news.
Yeah, it was sad. One dude shouting to the void, basically. If that's all it takes to get an instance defederated, then the Fediverse is doomed to be small oases in an ocean of fear and hatred.
Fediverse is doomed to be small oases in an ocean of fear and hatred.
Tell me about it.
I don't think many people realize how little effort it would take me, to go and create a bot that just creates accounts on their instance, and then posts pro-trump things on other instances.
Let that run for, oh. a day or two, and I imagine that would be the end of federation for everyone.
I heard there is the option to enable captcha in the new 0.18 version, so there should be some protection soon.
edit: I had it the wrong way around and the removed captcha in 0.18 to reimplement it in a future version
I specifically choose instances based on their instance block list. If they block a lot of instances, I don't consider them. My ideal ones are the ones that are a bit free and yet are well connected, but sometimes well connected means "allied to the mass defederators" because people in general become super compliant in the face of isolation.
Sh.itjust.works may start banning communities to regain federation to Beehaw, and then Beehaw will ask that sh.itjust.works defederate a "wrong" instance or two, and by the time we know it, we'll all be banning the same instances, and we'll be a cute little echo chamber of "tolerance".
By that same measure, I usually avoid any instance of community that claims to be a "safe place". They're the likeliest to always be attacking others because that's how you stay safe, through unending violence.