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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Might help with the problem I was previously talking about here. They would need to have a user account created on pawb.social in order to start subscribing, and we could probably add some of our communities on it so smaller servers can find us. This seems like one of the only real ways of countering instance isolation with Lemmy's design.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think it's an interesting idea, but as someone who has an account on furry.engineer and follows fediverse politics, something jumped out at me; its use of a blocklist.

The page doesn't mention who they are using as the root of trust, so I assume it's the fediseer account. Now I don't have anything against fediseer (mostly), but adding a single point of trust to this system is, I think, a bit unnecessary.

Instances that want to protect themselves against spam or undesirables can do it themselves with their own blocklists, fediseer or otherwise. I'm not sure why this tool needs to have its own opinion on blocklists.

I also think whether to pull down nsfw communities should be a toggle; some instances may be cool with it.

[–] iso 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Hi. I don't use a Fediseer account, I'm just fetching guarantors and censures from Fediseer. I only block lemmit.online and alien.top myself, which are Reddit clone instances.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Doesn't that leave you open to being DoSed if someone creates three troll instances and each censure a bunch of instances?

[–] iso 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Then they will all blocked from Fediseer, since its chain of trust. But being able to toggle Fediseer and NSFW makes sense. I'll think about it 🙏 I guess instances should be able to choose whatever they want.

I made it in one day, and didn't thought about it much.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Agreed. Might be worth opening an issue on their project to gauge opinions, or even forking it with less of an anti-NSFW slant (which would unfortunately require an extra set of accounts to be made on all the instances). I would guess the current stance is to make it more palatable as something that every single server could sign up for without any worry of new problems needing to be dealt with.