The best analog to federation I've heard is email.
Defederating an instance would be like outlook blocking all emails from gmail, and not sending any emails to gmail.
Defederating is a severe course of action
the reality is, there will end up a pocket group with this and other types of content, over time it will be effectively a shadow network. the blocking game will always be a thing.
There's more than a few that have just been mass defederated by most instances
Same as most places. Moderation, ban hammer, and for Lemmy specific solution, defederation with a problem instance.
Hexbear and lemmy.ml both had their share of brigading and trolling to deal with. It will likely become worse as it grows more popular.
The modlog is a useful tool, though it doesn't capture everything
eli5 defederation?
Makes sense! Thanks!
The best analog to federation I've heard is email.
Defederating an instance would be like outlook blocking all emails from gmail, and not sending any emails to gmail.
Defederating is a severe course of action
the reality is, there will end up a pocket group with this and other types of content, over time it will be effectively a shadow network. the blocking game will always be a thing.
making meme’s obviously
Every instance will need to take moderation seriously if they want to stay federated.