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FYI, lots of users are polling to defederate sh.itjust.works (lemmyonline.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by xtremeownage@lemmyonline.com to c/main@sh.itjust.works
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Might- be worth knowing about.....

https://lemmyonline.com/comment/47545

Edit- And... (From beehaw...) https://lemmyonline.com/post/8944

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[–] xtremeownage@lemmyonline.com 24 points 1 year ago

but this seems like something a federated system could handle without banning an instance. Am I confused about how this works?

No- it can be easily handled multiple other ways too.

  1. If users don't subscribe to the community, the community doesn't federate elsewhere.
  2. Users can individually block the community and/or user responsible.
  3. Admins, at an instance level, can block the community and/or user.

At THIS instance level (sh.itjust.works) 4. The community can be removed/blocked. This removes it globally.

Defederation is the complete nuke-from-orbit option, which should only be reserved when you have an instance that is unwilling to work with you to resolve issues.

Aka- you have an instance, owned by spammers, producing spam bots causing negative user experience.

I joined this instance because of the renewable energy commitment.

I keep hearing this. Maybe. I should update my instance and let everyone know my server runs on pure sunlight too. lol