I hope this is the right place to discuss a potential feature for lemmy.

I’ve been reading a lot of the defederation calls from instances and their users. More often than not, this was due to very specific elements of those instances; trolls, extremists, etc… But in my opinion, defederating a whole instance because of that is a sad pity.

I was thinking a way to solve this would be to have a federated blacklist. Instance Admins would ban user accounts from their instance and that would be added to a list that could be consulted/automatically used by other instance owners. They would ideally be able to set parameters, like banning users from a list accepted by a number of other instances, a specific reason for the ban, or banned by specific instances.

This would lessen the administrative load, protect instances, allow different instances with shared concerns to help each other while allowing their own users to interact with the ‘compatible’ users and communities from other instances.

Just an idea and wanted to bring it up and hear some thoughts.

  • anji@lemmy.anji.nl
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    1 year ago

    Oh, yeah in that case I guess Lemmy propagates this information so other instances can show the “banned” information on a user profile.

    • Zetaphor@zemmy.cc
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      1 year ago

      Exactly, though I’d like to get a PR in to not show that on the admin screen, or in the very least to make the list collapsed by default. I think I’ll work on that today.