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Lemmy Defederation Sync (LDS) to keep your block list up to date (github.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi all, I'm a Lemmy FOSS app contributor that's made a couple of tools for people starting small instances including Lemmy Community Seeder (LCS) for building content on new server's All Feeds and Lemmy Post Purger (LPP) for clearing old posts on smaller instances.

Today I'm releasing Lemmy Defederation Sync (LDS). When launching a new Lemmy instance, administrators may not understand the necessity of defederation with problem instances. Using LDS, you can sync your instance's "blocked instance" list with that of another server(s) whose admins you trust.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (13 children)

You forgot people who selfhost single user instances. So they would have to destroy the old instance and create and new one with a new domain, which is a lot of work and resources.

Edit: Please also notice the problem here is not defederation itself, but shared lists of defederation. Because most likely the list is super long and nobody would check if all instances are legitimately blocked.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (3 children)

If the single user on such an instance is so obnoxious as to be defederated from multiple larger instances, making them spend time and money to come back is a good thing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

If he actually is obnoxious, then yes. But what guaranties he is obnoxious? Or that he just statements were just misinterpreted. Happens a lot.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you trust the judgment of the (admins of the) sites you are syncing with, this isn't a problem. If you don't trust that, don't sync with them.

For instance, if I wanted to run my own server, I would absolutely sync with lemmy.world's block list. I agree with their stated defederation policy, and have seen no evidence of the admins disregarding it.

Perhaps you are misunderstanding what this tool does?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I am making an analogy of current situation of mastodon landscape where similar a project is based on questionable sources. Currently beehaw is nice and is blocking Lemmy.world. This makes me believe beehaw then end up blocking Lemmy world.

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