If I’m importing a butt-load of content into my instance, should I temporarily set federation: { enabled: false } while importing to avoid pissing other instance-admins off?

I’m assuming my instance could face some repercussions like:

  • being rate-limited
  • being blacklisted
  • clogging remote search indexes up with gigs of crap
  • flooding remote feeds and pissing off remote users

Am I wrong?
Am I missing something?
Is there a better way to prevent these side-effects?

  • LunaticHacker
    3·
    3 years ago

    This is only a problem if you use the Lemmy API, You should do the import by writing to the database directly

    • nutomicA
      7·
      3 years ago

      That sounds like a bad idea, using the api is much safer.