My understanding was that they blocked 2 specific instances, which people are referring to as “defederating” and “having a closed system,” but my understanding is that all other Lemmy and kbin instances can still interact with Beehaw and vice versa, so isn’t Beehaw technically still federated, they just blocked two instances which is something I would expect federated servers to be allowed to do? And are people boycotting Beehaw? Does that involve not interacting with any beehaw server, or does that mean people are just not having accounts in a Beehaw server?

Edit: and I’m seeing posts now suggesting that kbin is defederating? What’s up with that?

  • Zak@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I don’t think it necessarily needs karma like Reddit, but I think a reputation system of some sort is going to be required for open federation to remain viable as federated systems grow. Just looking at account age and post history isn’t good enough if the bad actor owns a server and wants to put some effort into spamming or harassing people.

      • david@feddit.ukEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I don’t think so. I think the person you’re replying to felt that having a reputation system would have enabled beehaw mods to block low rep users and still allow the instances they blocked.