All the communities on lemmy.lukeog.com are mirrors of Reddit boards. lemmy.lukeog.com does not accept posts from Lemmy users – only its bot may post and comment, and its posts and comments are just mirrors of Reddit posts and comments.
This doesn’t seem like a useful way to use Lemmy. It’s more like just a mirror of Reddit, in which case archive.is or web.archive.org would be more useful, in my opinion.
Better not to waste bandwidth and resources on this, in my opinion.
Seems like the exact sort of situation user side instance blocking is great for.
Defederation should be reserved for cases when federation can harm the host instance.
Unless the cost of federation becomes that high, I’d recommend keeping federated.
Sounds like that alien top instance a while back.
What does defederation mean? Sorry, I’m new here
Lemmy is distributed across different instances. Instances can “federate” with each other, which means they share content and users with each other. “Defederating” means to remove that content sharing with the other instance.
As an example, let’s say that Instance-X contains unregulated hate speech on it. Other instances can remove federation from Instance-X so their community posts no longer get shared to/from them.Thank you!
It depends on who defederates who.
In this case, it would mean lukeog’s content no longer appears on this instance (lemmy.world). You would need to browse it directly or another instance that is still talking to it in order to see the content.
Ah okay, so it’s still accessible, but just not by default? Something kinda like what Reddit does with quarantining a subreddit?
I can see how it’s useful to keep “Hot” or “All” feeds clear of junk. But I hope it’s not the case where server admins can choose to totally prevent an instance from being discoverable.
Yeah but imagine you can join a “different” reddit that can see all of them still. It’s only if you’re on this specific instance you won’t see them.
Instead of site->community->user it’s more fediverse->site->community->user. Any site (instance) can talk to - or block - another site (instance).
It seems odd to not even allow commenting, but I’m not seeing how this does any harm. If anything, I’d rather have access to it for those few situations where reddit is still the only good option to find what I’m looking for. Better than giving reddit any activity.
Plus, if this makes it easier to crosspost interesting content to local communities then I’d say it’s definitely a good thing.
If you want reddit posts go to reddit? If you like the content, we are a content aggregator so cross platform posts are encouraged? Using bots like that isn’t any different from any other freebooting.
I can see the benefit of it, just wanting the info without giving Reddit any traffic. But I think yeah if you wanna do that have an instance that doesn’t federate or something
Don’t get me wrong, I get why they do it. I’m just saying they should be curating content, not blindly reposting.
Sounds like an easy yes to defed
You can block the instance if you don’t like it personnely lets not make a “Defediverse”
