• cerevant@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    A fundamental weakness of Lemmy is that every instance has to mirror all the content it’s users have subscribed to. This means that each instance is hosting that content, and is legally liable for hosting it.

    I can certainly understand why the admins would choose not to violate their country’s laws.

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      1 year ago

      I can even understand them choosing to do things based on their personal morality, ethics, and biases since users can always choose to use a different instance at any point in time.

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        1 year ago

        Absolutely - this is the strength of federation, and why I think communities should be distributed across many instances, while users can gather at instances where the administrative policies are consistent with their values.

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          1 year ago

          Eventually there will be a need to easily compare instances and their current defederation/blocking statuses so people can make informed choices.

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            1 year ago

            They are already pretty clear in the rules that they won’t allow illegal content.

            I don’t know about blocking, but defederation is covered under “/instances” on Lemmy servers.