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  • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    Crowdsourced blocklists don’t work. Never have, never will. It’s far too easy to manipulate.

    Especially when people also add “guilty by association”. Follow a person that someone doesn’t like? Have fun on the blocklist and not having a chance to get off of there

      • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        No. It’s not an automated whitelist, it’s an automated blacklist (for some). If you want to avoid getting blocked, nothing has changed - don’t spam, don’t post illegal stuff. And if your instance starts spamming, be responsive in resolving the problem.

        Fediseer doesn’t change any of that, it just provides an easy way to mark instances as not good.

        You need to “beg” (which in reality is just “ask”) only if you want to become an active member of Fediseer.

          • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.worldEnglish
            3·
            1 year ago

            I already replied there, but here’s some more info: there are instances which have a whitelist-only approach, but those are only few. I think those could probably use Fediseer the way you’re describing. But most instances want to federate with as many instances as possible, so switching to whitelist-only doesn’t make sense for them.

            Anyway, I’ve guaranteed for you on Fediseer if you want to participate.

          • gabe [he/him]@literature.cafeEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            The goal isn’t to make things a fully automated whitelist, it’s more so a list of instances that cause issues or are suspected as spam that would be blocked. Even then, instances see the info and are given the opportunity to do what they want with the info as they see fit.

            It really takes a lot to get fediblocked as a small user instance.