I hope this is the right place to discuss a potential feature for lemmy.
I've been reading a lot of the defederation calls from instances and their users. More often than not, this was due to very specific elements of those instances; trolls, extremists, etc... But in my opinion, defederating a whole instance because of that is a sad pity.
I was thinking a way to solve this would be to have a federated blacklist.
Instance Admins would ban user accounts from their instance and that would be added to a list that could be consulted/automatically used by other instance owners. They would ideally be able to set parameters, like banning users from a list accepted by a number of other instances, a specific reason for the ban, or banned by specific instances.
This would lessen the administrative load, protect instances, allow different instances with shared concerns to help each other while allowing their own users to interact with the 'compatible' users and communities from other instances.
Just an idea and wanted to bring it up and hear some thoughts.
Idk how all this works, but I just set up my own instance yesterday, and I already have tons of accounts on the ban list. I'm not adding them, but I can see in the modlogs that someone is adding them, and they are automatically getting banned from my instance. Maybe this already exists?
That's admins of other instances you're federating with banning people from their own instances.
Then why do they show up in the ban list for my instance? I didn't add them.
Sorry for the random comment, but I'm seeing you everywhere. Here and in the Lemmy Github issues. Very memorable name somehow :)
lol I wouldn't be surprised if it did and I didn't know about it
It does surprise me because from what I've been reading the mod tools and ban capabilities were... limited
This exists, but it is not entirely clear to me how it works and what criteria it needs to fulfill to show up on that federated ban-list in Lemmy.