• Instance: federated.fun
  • Type: Defederation
  • Affects: Pawb.Social, furry.engineer, pawb.fun
  • Reason: Trolling, transphobia, hate speech, unmoderated / single-user instance
  • Spitfire@pawb.social
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    1 year ago

    Huh…. Something I hadn’t considered until now about the Fediverse, are these single-user instances.

    Theoretically they could keep making new ones to troll or harass, right? Is there anything to be done preventatively? Or is it more keeping an eye out and defederating as needed?

    • SavvyWolf@pawb.social
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      1 year ago

      You need a domain name to run a Fediverse instance, which costs money, which should hopefully be enough of a deterrent.

      For admins out there, does Lemmy support “wildcard” defederations like *.federated.fun?

    • Crashdoom@pawb.socialOPM
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      1 year ago

      Typically, there isn’t much we can do to handle abusive single-user instances preemptively as anything that was added to combat that would most likely also affect legitimate single-user instances. Currently, we’ve just keeping an eye out, checking to see if they federate with “the usual suspects”, or if their posting history is just full of trolling, hate speech, or other content that would result in a user-specific suspension.

    • BOLOID@pawb.social
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      1 year ago

      I guess getting your one-user instance defed would be equivalent to getting banned. You make a new instance just like you would make a new account.