So far Lemmy is vibing. Everyone here is excited and optimistic and willing to put up with a few rough spots to be part of something.

When the Eternal September comes, which it will, how does a Lemmy instance deal with bad actors?

  • Joe@lemmy.knocknet.net
    24·
    2 years ago

    It’s part of the reason I chose to host my own rather than depend on another server somewhere. That way when I do fuck it up at least the only person to blame is me

    Yay federation and activitypub!

    • little_hoarse@sh.itjust.works
      7·
      2 years ago

      Smart choice, do you have it set to private? The only thing I’d worry about is people trying to join my server and bogging down my internet lol

      • Joe@lemmy.knocknet.net
        22·
        2 years ago

        I don’t have it set to private because when I tried that before it seems to break federation entirely. I do however have to approve anyone who wants to join. At this point I’d probably allow my close friends to join if they wanted, but that’s about it.

        Mostly because I am nearly 100% positive I will either lose my ZFS array, try to move the server to different hardware and bork psql, or what have you…

        My homelab is mostly duck tape and bubblegum.

      • animist@lemmy.one
        10·
        2 years ago

        I’m gonna set mine up to where everyone has to be approved and approve nobody since it’ll be running on a Raspberry Pi

    • Gormadt@beehaw.org
      5·
      2 years ago

      Pardon my ignorance, I’ve only just started to figure out federated sites (I think, probably not though), what’s activitypub?

    • thekernel
      1·
      2 years ago

      The bit I’m curious about is how the federation works - does it rely on a ssl cert or something matching the domain to setup a trust, and then it becomes part of the network?

      If so, what’s to stop spammers just constantly adding new instances and spamming out comments to other instances communities non stop?