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It's not my intent to determine how things "should" work.
This is how things DO currently work.
If lemmy.world could read this they'd be very upset
It makes perfect sense to me. You're allowed to do with your own server what you want. That's one of the advantages of foss.
There have always been private communities. Just because these ones are running on standardized protocols that allow communication between servers, doesn't mean you're suddenly required to be public and let everything in.
There exists no means to be private without defederating from literally every other instance.
The intent of Beehaw appears to be giving people a safe place that they can return to, but they can venture out just as well. That ideal does not mesh with an allowlist. The goal doesn't appear to be to curate a specific experience, it is to block bad actors from harassing Beehaw's users on Beehaw's hosted communities.
With this in mind, I think it absolutely does make sense for lemmy to include permissions that restrict what foreign users can do vs what local users can
We're open by default because we have the belief that you have a right to demonstrate you can be a good actor. @[email protected] details this in the philosophy of our community.
Trust me when I say defederation was the last choice on the radar for this situation.
We're open by default because we have the belief that you have a right to demonstrate you can be a good actor. @[email protected] details this in the philosophy of our community.
Trust me when I say defederation was the last choice on the radar for this situation.
The tools are lacking, as you said.
This post is not about how things should be. It's not about how things might be one day. It's about how they are right now
Maybe the lemmy software doesn't offer that as a feature right now, but from what I undertstand it's not an issue on protocol level. So it's mostly a lack of user friendly configuration options?
Broadly speaking, that's correct.
Regardless of how development goes in the future, this post is meant to highlight the realities of the current, and the ideological realities of what content on the fediverse is, as well as where you are served it from.