How does Lemmy combat illegal activities and content?
How does Lemmy combat illegal activities and content?
Even if it's just a recommendation on a different group in which to ask the question, I'm curious how Lemmy combats criminal activity and content like human trafficking, smuggling, terrorism, etc?
Is it just a matter of each node bans users when they identify a crime, and/or problematic nodes are defederated if they tolerate it?
And if defederated, does that mean each node has to individually choose to defederate from the one allowing criminal activity?
The protocol and software don't. It's open source and anyone can use it.
Instance admins can block servers that allow anything that's illegal (or they otherwise believe is inappropriate) .
To add on:
If a problem user is on instance A, then it's mainly up to the admins of instance A to deal with the user. Until that happens, other instances can block the problem user from their particular instance. Ideally instance A steps in and deals with the problem user quickly.
If instance A is not dealing with the problem user, if there's a wave of them on instance A, or if there's an entire problem community, other instances will likely defederate (temporarily or permanently)
Thank you for the response!
Each server has its own terms. They ban as they see fit.
Yes, if a server allows crap, other servers defed.
Users should find a server whose owner aligns with their values closest.
Also, you can block users, channels, whole servers, bots.
Also, you can block users, channels, whole servers, bots.
to clarify, regular users cannot block other instances-- they can only block posts from other instances. users and their comments from those instances are still visible on federated posts/comments from other instances and must still be blocked individually. i have no idea why this feature was implemented this way, as it's pretty much useless.
some 3rd-party apps provide better instance-blocking functionality that will block an instance's users and their comments, too, but lemmy-ui doesn't.
Appreciate you taking the time to help me understand.
It is up to the home instance of the user, and problematic nodes are defederated.
Instances can choose to operate either blacklist or whitelist mode. Most are on blacklist mode, where new instances federate automatically.
It seems like a potential scalability issue, and a lot of work. Props to the administrators who deal with this right now.
I may be wrong, but as I understand it fundementally as part of the fediverse I don't think they're obligated to do anything, there's no greater site policy to uphold.
They could host whatever content and discussion they want, and if that means their local government comes down on them for it and shuts the server down, then so be it, but Lemmy as a platform on its own I don't believe combats anything cross-instance. Each instance would just have its own rules and mods would ban users or defederate accordingly.
So basically a silk road alternative, but not really because it would be much easier to track down and remove a node? Or is it possible to also hide a node and rely on forcing de-federation?
Why should Lemmy do that