Last week, this strange mention appeared on my Mastodon feed. After a bit of clicking around, I figured out what had happened. A user on the Kbin social network had linked to my Mastodon profile. Thanks to the magic of the ActivityPub protocol, it filtered into my mentions - even though I've never even heard [...]
I’ve been on the Fediverse since 2016, and I still get a little mixed up by how things work.
What I’m concerned about is if the large instances move from a blocklist model (like they have now) to instead use an allowlist model, where only explicitly approved instances are allowed to federate with them.
That’s true, that’s a good point. Well I guess the only thing you can do is hope that doesn’t happen lol
Setting up a Lemmy instance isn’t the easiest thing, and automating it is even more challenging, so I don’t necessarily think it’s the kind of thing that can be done so easily. It’s like 100x harder than creating a new account so I feel like It’s not something that would be abused as much as like creating new accounts would be. I think it’ll probably be fine.
What I’m concerned about is if the large instances move from a blocklist model (like they have now) to instead use an allowlist model, where only explicitly approved instances are allowed to federate with them.
That’s true, that’s a good point. Well I guess the only thing you can do is hope that doesn’t happen lol
Setting up a Lemmy instance isn’t the easiest thing, and automating it is even more challenging, so I don’t necessarily think it’s the kind of thing that can be done so easily. It’s like 100x harder than creating a new account so I feel like It’s not something that would be abused as much as like creating new accounts would be. I think it’ll probably be fine.