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In light of recent events in the Fediverse (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This will keep happening.

I've seen DDOS attacks launched between rival guilds of MMORPGs. People will find an excuse to be assholes to each other online.

The defederation of Beehaw.org to protect itself is a feature, not a bug. It sucks for the people involved, but I'm liking how the community has managed to come together in light of the actions. Defederating works: it allowed Beehaw.org to ban the trolls and continue their community discussions.

And I say this as a lemmy.world user who was (and still am) cut-off from Beehaw.org. I'd like to get access restored there ASAP, but you know, I'm glad to see that the new tools available here on the Fediverse that didn't exist in Reddit-world.

Future attacks, invasions, and other such rivalries between communities will only grow bigger, harsher, more serious as time goes on. Consider this whole situation to be just a test of the times to come.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Agreed. There are still more granular tools missing, but a core feature of a federated system is having instances with different ToS, different Codes of Conduct, and when two instances can't see eye to eye... just defederate and continue business as usual.

On Reddit, mods would ban people "by association" for posting on subreddits they seemed incompatible with theirs... and creating alternate accounts to bypass those bans was considered "ban evasion", a site-wide offense. That's not even a concept in the Fediverse.