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

submitted 1 year ago by fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] qaz@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Defederation does hurt Lemmy when overdone, but sometimes it simply needs to happen to keep unmoderated instances from harassing your instance. Shared blocklists when properly managed simplify this process and improves Lemmy’s capability to protect it’s users from spam and brigading.

[–] ram@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

this process and improves Lemmy’s capability to protect it’s users from spam and brigading

That assumes defederation only happens in those cases. You have an account from lemmy.world, so I guess you trust that instance. You know, the same instance that preemptively defederated from hexbear.net for political reasons. You see the problem?

[–] thalience@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

You see the problem?

No. I just looked at that instance's front page. If the lemmy.world admins didn't take action, I don't see how I could continue to trust their judgement in enforcing their code of conduct going forward.