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 )

  • Carighan Maconar
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    310 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
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      10 months ago

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

      • @intensely_human@lemm.ee
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        110 months ago

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

        • sour
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          110 months ago

          is worse than having access to comments