https://szmer.info/u/Ludrol posted on Mar 3, 2026 17:52
On mastodon side there is iftas.
What would be an equivalent for lemmy?
On mastodon side there is iftas.
What would be an equivalent for lemmy?
Came for the ‘should degenerate’
Fediseer perhaps?
None. I don’t have any blocked and it’s been fine.
PieFed has this in the admin area:
So admins don’t need to stay on top of the latest defederation drama, just choose who to outsource that work to. From that baseline you can add more defederations manually.
I done defederate. Seems censorship and contrary to the concept of the fediverse.
But I also run my one user instance, so well…
What does it mean to defederate?
It’s like federating, but not.
Thanks for coming.
I jest.
A lot of people compare the fediverse to emails. Different domains can all talk to each other.
Imagine if there was an email service Jeffrey Epstein made for him and his buddies; LolitaMail.
It should go without saying every email service should block all LolitaMail communications.
That’s what defederating is.
How do you stop really nasty stuff from getting to your instance?
(I know nothing about how and when fediverse transfers data)
Ah so it’s about moving away from Lemmy and back to Reddit for example?
I thought federalization was about not having an owner of a platform. Decentralization. I have some reading to do
The federation is community owned.
You are a user of the sh.itjust.works domain, who is owned by a real person.
There are bad Lemmy instances you don’t want to be part of, and the owner of sh.itjust.works has blocked that instance, you’ll never even know it was there.
not really, every Lemmy instance has an owner…
What federation is is that every Lemmy instance gets some of its data not just from its users, but also from other Lemmy instances. You can think of each Lemmy instance as one mini-reddit, in principle there is no difference between reddit and one single Lemmy instance. Federation means that Lemmy instances copy their data from/to each other so that you can talk to users who use other ones too.
As someone who also runs a single user instance, lemmy uses the protocol activitupub, and the way I federate my server is auto federate with any instance federated by piefed.social bc I like rimu@piefed.social ethics.
As someone who also runs a single user instance, lemmy uses the protocol activitupub, and the way I federate my server is auto federate with any instance federated by piefed.social bc I like rimu@piefed.social ethics.
Since I am on a single user instance, the instance receives only stuff from the communities I subscribe to.
This means that I just select what I am interested in.
So far after over 1 year I never seen a single “dangerous” piece of stuff, so I think the risk is a not overstated.
The downside is that my “all/everything” feed is identical to my subscribed feed, bummer.
So defederation just means we block some of instances
