@LMAO is flooding the site with random communities because they’re salty about being banned for claiming too many community names. They claim they’re trying to “fuck your entire site up” but I imagine it’s a relatively quick fix to delete all the communities they’re creating, LMAO.
Yea but super spammy piss baby is creating all kinds of instances, correct? Which means he is the admin of the instances correct? Like ruud has power over lemmy.world but no power over pissbabys instances? Best he can do is defederate (ignore) them. Question is, is there a higher authority above instance owners because otherwise anyone can start an instance and be a defacto god. Who polices the police?
No. He’s creating communities (formerly subreddits) within the lemmy.world community. Ruud should still have authority over them.
Anyone can be the god of their own instance. Doesn’t mean other instances need to federate and listen to whatever it spits out. I imagine some metric of quality will come for instance admins to decide who to federate with. Hopefully with a mechanism to allow small new instances to join and thrive so it doesn’t devolve into only the big servers trusting each other
Nobody. Think of it like rafts on the ocean. The only policing that’s done is allowing someone else to keep a rope from your raft to theirs. If you want to defederate, you just untie their ropes and they aren’t your problem anymore.
An instance is a piece of server software, so you are spending your own resources running this software. It won’t have any effect on other instances besides showing communities that are hosted on your instance. No information is transferred until someone from other instances subscribe to your communities.