I discovered programming.dev after I registered at Lemmy.world, and wanted to see how well federation works.

I looked through your list of communities, I think [email protected] is the best place for this test post, but I apologize if there’s a better place for this that I didn’t see.

That being said, I might as well ask a question as part of this test-post / cross instance test discussion!

With different communities having different signup policies(ex: Beehaw.org vs Lemmy.world) and the threat of defederation existing… how does programming.dev plan to deal with problematic servers?

I’m a pessimist. I feel like inevitably, some kind of flamewar or drama will cause cross-board invasions between subreddits (and now, different [email protected] on Lemmy).

I don’t think anyone knows the answer, but I guess I wanted to muse upon something to make this post more substantial than just a test post. Thanks for having me!

  • snowe@programming.dev
    MEnglish
    51·
    2 years ago

    We’ve already dealt with one problematic server by defederating. But, it was kind of an easy decision, because it was a private instance and it had a bot that was just posting every link from hacker news.

    I’m a pessimist. I feel like inevitably, some kind of flamewar or drama will cause cross-board invasions between subreddits (and now, different [email protected] on Lemmy).

    In all likelihood you are correct. I think we will have to come up with rules for the server and then if other instances cause flamewars here that go against those rules then we can talk about defederation.