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Instances in the free fediverses should consider "transitive defederation" from instances that federate with Meta (privacy.thenexus.today)
submitted 11 months ago by thenexusofprivacy@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/7477620

Transitive defederation -- defederating from instances that federate with Threads as well as defederating from Threads -- isn't likely to be an all-or-nothing thing in the free fediverses. Tradeoffs are different for different people and instances. This is one of the strengths of the fediverse, so however much transitive defederation there winds up being, I see it as overall as a positive thing -- although also messy and complicated.

The recommendation here is for instances to consider #TransitiveDefederation: discuss, and decide what to do. I've also got some thoughts on how to have the discussion -- and the strategic aspects.

(Part 7 of Strategies for the free fediverses )

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[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

What can a hate group do when Meta’s federated to an instance with vulnerable people in it, that they can’t do when Meta’s not federated with that instance?

[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Yeah people never explain that. As if people get stopped by this. It just makes the tech behind the federation actually useless just for some imaginary hypothetical threat that it wouldn't stop anyways!

[-] sour@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

will hate groups spend extra time making fediverse account when previously didn’t

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

So there's a difficulty barrier. They will have access to comments. What is the attack they would then perform?

[-] sour@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

is worse than having access to comments

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