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I would not at all be surprised if the GDPR dictates a set time period to respond backed up by fines.
It is easy now with defederation.
De-federation isn't the tool to solve this specific problem. That community has 34 posts, all by a single user, and under 30 total comments across all threads. I cannot find a single post or comment in that community that would violate any rules on lemmy.ml.
A single user posting content in a community that shares a name with a banned community on another social media platform seems like a very very low bar to push for de-federation.
This is actually one of the things I think de-federation is meant for. Anybody can stand up an instance and use it to post spam.
De-federation is a useful tool to cut off such an instance without having to grow your ban list by orders of magnitude.
If meta wants to harvest data they would just create boring no-name servers to pull down the data that they want. De-federation isn't going to stop that.
The goal isn't to create a system where there are no corporate instances. The goal is to create a network that doesn't rely on corporate instances.
This idea that we use use de-federation like a weapon will cause the Fediverse to fragment and then we're back where we started: 50 different social media services and a fragmented social media experience. De-federation isn't a super downvote button, its use should be limited to boring server-related things (spam, complying with laws, etc).
The strength of federated social media is that it is all available for everyone at all times via one account. Breaking the network into small chunks or having some central group decide who gets to have access to social media is the exact thing that the ActivityPub protocol is suppose to help people escape from.
You're totally getting banned from c/conservative as soon as they figure out how to use Lemmy.
I think de-federation should be very limited.
It should be used as a tool to fight spam, disassociate with instances allowing the commission of crimes, that propagates abusive content (CSAM, Doxing, Targeted Harassment, SWATing, etc) or other things that cause direct real-world harm.
De-federation should not be used as a political tool to divide social media along partisan lines. If people cannot handle distasteful opinions then they have access to the block button. If users from other instances break the rules here, then they can be banned from here. If you find other communities distasteful, then don't go there.
"The blackout didn't affect us at all."
"If you don't unblackout we're going to start removing moderators and taking over subreddits."
I think, maybe, the blackout hurt them. If it goes on for longer then ad buyers will shift their money to other platforms.
Serious question: What is the alternative to open registration? Invite-only? What is the expectation?
Seems a bit kneejerk to defederate, that's employing the nuclear option as the first step. It doesn't leave a lot of room for dialog.
Migrating from Reddit to Lemmy was easier than migrating from Netflix to a seedbox.
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You can also mail them a letter requesting your data and they have to honor it 🤣