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PSA: beehaw defederated from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by theory to c/feddituk

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We still federate, but god knows how long that will last. They have defederated nearly 400 instances and they sound lile theyre losing the plot

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[–] dad 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This feels like a bad idea. Let's look at some popular federated networks:

Anyone with a phone number can call anyone else with a phone number.
Anyone with an email can email anyone else with an email.
Anyone can setup a Matrix server and message anyone else with federation turned on.
There is one DNS system despite it being decentralised.

This feels like a modern day IRC netsplit and we will all lose. This decision needs to be reversed once better tooling / organisation is put in place. Blocking should be done at a different layer (e.g. call blocking or email spam filtering).

[–] mark 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

But it is absolutely true that telephone networks and email servers that get used too much for spam calls/messages will get blacklisted by other providers.

If your email provider gets a bad reputation then your emails will get blocked (that is a lot of how spam filtering works). That is pretty analogous.

[–] dad 4 points 1 year ago

This is different because it bifurcates the network. End users will have to understand which Lemmy providers federate with whichever others in a way they don't have to with email today. It also feels like the bar to classifying these two providers as malicious is a lot lower than with email.

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