No, defederating would block all flow between instances. The problem is with hosting content that you don’t want to or arent allowed to host. Currently if I view a image from burggit, the image gets saved to the monero.town and then served whenever someone else views it from there, which is a problem. If instead every time someone wants to view that image, it gets pulled from burggit again, monero.town isn’t in trouble for hosting it anymore.
True, guess not caching remote content at all should be an option as well. Then you can just block caching for every instance that doesn’t enforce proper tagging.
This issue should be solved if you could just set lemmy to not cache federated NSFW images (without fully disabling NSFW on your instance) since then users would load the images from the remote server and not the homeserver.
Monero.town is very lax when it comes to moderation as long as you don’t say anything that could get you arrested in Germany.
I like lemmies approach of not trying to reinvent the wheel and just let people put their matrix usernames into their profile for secure communication.
Same reason people fanboy over anything. They have made a personal investment in something, be it time or money, and are now trying to justify it by saying everything else is trash.
Then this gets reinforced by their bubble and more and more extreme opinions form. Reasonable people don’t behave this way.
I don’t get what would defederating with Facebook-federated instances gives you, though.
Means the instance isn’t part of the hive mind and we obviously can’t have that!
Good thing we don’t have custom emojis on monero.town and the admin account isn’t used for things outside of the local community :D
I’m actually quite a bit younger than that. I was very much into stocks but got scammed in the GME fiasco when they disabled the buy button and got into Monero (at least I know beforehand that crypto is manipulated as fuck). Monero lead to FOSS and now I run a xmr node, i2p node, lemmy instance, selfhost cool stuff, etc. I learned a lot of stuff this way.
My home instance requires you to submit proof that you are human by either posting on an existing social media account or anonymously by sending 0.01 XMR (about 1.5€), that system is really hard to game (i guess you could spend a bunch of money on accounts but those would get banned and the funds would just pay for hosting lol).
I think instance admins will just have to make sure they don’t have bots on their platform and block instances that do a bad job at it leading to others getting invaded.
After moderating a bigger subreddit and seeing just how much spam there was in the comments and just how many people spend time replying to these bots I basically stopped reading them. Here I haven’t see bots yet and at least my home instance watches out that it stays that way.
Just a tip, you should change the default pict-rs logging to “warn”, the pre-set default logs wayyy too much and causes really noticeable bloat on smaller instances :D
That is a very cool interface :D
I’m weirded out by the fact that they offered a “lifetime” subscription for rather cheap. That’s not something you do if you want to get indefinite funding for your video platform (hosting video is expensive).
Ugh… So people interested in decentralized networks are interested in decentralized networks. Shocker.
Btw I believe we’ve been here quite a bit longer than you, I’ve set up the first monero Lemmy instance about 5 months ago…
The nice part about federated software is that there are other instances you can join :D
Looks like it’s quite popular in Japan.