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I would not at all be surprised if the GDPR dictates a set time period to respond backed up by fines.
It is easy now with defederation.
De-federation isn't the tool to solve this specific problem. That community has 34 posts, all by a single user, and under 30 total comments across all threads. I cannot find a single post or comment in that community that would violate any rules on lemmy.ml.
A single user posting content in a community that shares a name with a banned community on another social media platform seems like a very very low bar to push for de-federation.
It's not a bug. You're trying to subscribe to a Beehaw community.
What happened is that Beehaw has de-federated Lemmy.world. They've essentially banned, from their instance, all users on the lemmy.world instance. This was due to a combination of Beehaw having very heavily moderated communities and the influx of new users onto your (and my) instance.
Some of the new users were trolling the Beehaw communities (including user posting a picture of their penis in a Feminist community) and couldn't be banned because they could just re-create an account on these two instances as they were running with open sign-ups (Beehaw requires manual approval of user sign-ups).
Because of these things Beehaw's moderation team de-federated lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works until they could work with the two instance owners to come up with a solution. As of last update, they had reached out to lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works' admin staff but had only heard from sh.itjust.works. They said they're confident in re-federating at some point but have not provided a timeline.
Until then you will not be able to access Beehaw communities or see any posts from Beehaw users until the de-federation has been lifted.
This is actually one of the things I think de-federation is meant for. Anybody can stand up an instance and use it to post spam.
De-federation is a useful tool to cut off such an instance without having to grow your ban list by orders of magnitude.
If meta wants to harvest data they would just create boring no-name servers to pull down the data that they want. De-federation isn't going to stop that.
The goal isn't to create a system where there are no corporate instances. The goal is to create a network that doesn't rely on corporate instances.
This idea that we use use de-federation like a weapon will cause the Fediverse to fragment and then we're back where we started: 50 different social media services and a fragmented social media experience. De-federation isn't a super downvote button, its use should be limited to boring server-related things (spam, complying with laws, etc).
The strength of federated social media is that it is all available for everyone at all times via one account. Breaking the network into small chunks or having some central group decide who gets to have access to social media is the exact thing that the ActivityPub protocol is suppose to help people escape from.
You're totally getting banned from c/conservative as soon as they figure out how to use Lemmy.
No matter how you look at this Spez fucked up.
The protest is hurting ad dollars, some amount of users have migrated away and Reddit has received a ton of negative press.
Spez admits that the top two API users are no longer going to be selling their product. He doesn't speak about this like he regrets it. If he were serious about selling API access, he literally lost his two largest customers by refusing to work with them and slandering them.
Apollo said that they quoted him $20M/yr and he said in further interviews that the reason he couldn't make it work is because he sold the app to people for up to a year license and the cost he sold them to would be too low to cover his costs. If Reddit was willing to work with him on timeframe or costs he could have implemented a solution that would have let the users pay the fee (like $2/mo) and enough profit for him to continue working. Instead Spez provided no flexibility on price or timeline. He torpedoed his largest customer costing Reddit upwards of $20M/yr in revenue. The same with RIF.
Reddit is getting $0/mo from them when they were not unwilling to work with Reddit on the pricing. They just needed flexibility that Spez wouldn't provide.
He fucked this up royally.
"The blackout didn't affect us at all."
"If you don't unblackout we're going to start removing moderators and taking over subreddits."
I think, maybe, the blackout hurt them. If it goes on for longer then ad buyers will shift their money to other platforms.
Serious question: What is the alternative to open registration? Invite-only? What is the expectation?
Seems a bit kneejerk to defederate, that's employing the nuclear option as the first step. It doesn't leave a lot of room for dialog.
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You can also mail them a letter requesting your data and they have to honor it 🤣