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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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[-] TCB13@lemmy.world -5 points 1 year ago

The problem is that Reddit has a massive user-base and profits from the FOMO on newcomers while Lemmy is a very small thing most people don't know about and there are multiple cases of instances defederating others just because they feel like it... like the BS that beehaw.org pulled. Now we've lemmy.world and beehaw.org two of the largest instances that don't talk to each other.

[-] bloopernova@programming.dev 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
  • Lemmy is not a single thing
  • No one is being prevented from visiting defederated instances
  • No one should be forced to view content they find objectionable
  • Neither should they force their views onto others
  • Defederation is the equivalent of walking away from someone you don't want to engage with
  • Defederation does not delete content on other instances
  • Lemmy is not reddit
  • Defederation is not censorship
this post was submitted on 06 Aug 2023
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