Mastodon and today's fediverse are unsafe by design and unsafe by default – and instance blocking is a blunt but powerful safety tool
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Parts 1, 2, and 3 of "Golden opportunities for the fediverse – and whatever comes next"

Even though millions of people left Twitter in 2023 – and millions more are ready to move as soon as there’s a viable alternative – the fediverse isn’t growing.1 One reason why: today’s fediverse is unsafe by design and unsafe by default – especially for Black and Indigenous people, women of color, LGBTAIQ2S+ people2, Muslims, disabled people and other marginalized communities. ‌

  • P03 LockeEnglish
    10•1 year ago

    In my opinion, every router on the world should have instances running (and tunneled to not dox themselves) so people are not dependent on big instances.

    That would be a security and moderation nightmare. Moderating an instance is a tough job, and not everybody wants to take on that job.

    • hauiEnglish
      -1•1 year ago

      That could be a moderation and security nightmare. But so could everything else you do.

      Running a demilitarized zone to host lemmy for example does nothing for your home network since it is cut off from it. The important part is having automatic updates and smart interface to make configuration easy. I‘m not saying everyone should be doing it, I‘m saying everyone should be able to.

      Moderation is no problem either. If only people in your home network are allowed to register, you have only them to police. And stuff from outside gets reported to one or multiple mods and deleted/blocked/defederated. Problem solved.

      I don’t see a problem at all. Its still ways off atm but I can see it working.

      • P03 LockeEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        If only people in your home network are allowed to register

        Well, that’s one critical detail you didn’t specify. But, that still doesn’t account for the need for software updates, and hacking attempts. Also, why would anybody subscribe a community on a Lemmy instance with almost nobody on it?

        • hauiEnglish
          -1•1 year ago

          Yes, i didn’t specify that because for me, it was obvious, sorry.

          I‘m not sure you know how federation works. If one person subscribes to a one person instances community, that community gets federated. It is suddenly visible like it is on the big instance the one user came from.

          It’s not important that your instance is small. You need good content.