Both host content that are against our content policy and have had issues with users from those sites entering our community crossposting content that violates our content policy. We are discussing defederating other instances as well. There is discussion of lemmit.online being defederated because it pretty much exclusively scrapes reddit content and reposts it, and some content creators have expressed discomfort. If there’s other instances that might be worth considering defederating from, just post and it’ll be added to the current discussion.

and before anyone brings it up, lemmygrad defederated with us.

This isn’t a dictatorship but I ask that you please behave in the comment section and at least try to understand why we are defederating.

  • Nubbly@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I dont like the idea of defederation, but I understand your justifications for these specific instances.

    I find the idea of defederating lemmit.online an odd one. Is there a legal reason to do this? Or is it just because you don’t want users of our instance to see reddit content? I don’t quite understand the justification here. (I personally just have their communities blocked)

    • gavi@lemmynsfw.comOPMEnglish
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      1 year ago

      It was a topic of discussion I wanted community input from as someone brought it up. We are leaning against defederation of it currently.

      • freezeandpixillate@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Hey, I’m new here but I think keeping lemmit federated will help me smooth over the transition from reddit. The majority of all content on Reddit and Lemmy (including this very instance) is already reposted from some other sources anyway and I don’t really see a reason to treat automated reposting differently from manual.

        • remotelove@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Everything is basically a repost from somewhere anyway.

          There are some benefits to doing some Reddit scraping and there are some really shitty ways that it could happen as well.

          It would be great if news and or other world events were auto-posted is my first thought. /r/CombatFootage -> /c/CombatFootage would be awesome! Subject matter aside, news needs quick propagation.

          Floods of screenshots of Reddit posts would be on the shitty end of this, me thinks.