Okay, please, can we actually? xD
crashdoom
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We’re no longer defederating with them, but I wanted to make this post for transparency on why we originally did.
No, I don't believe there's a way right now to make a specific community "local-only" though this has been a thought I've had.
I do like the transparency and having outside opinions is useful in the decision making process, but I don't appreciate derogatory remarks like some in this thread from remote communities.
We have a clear set of policies that set out what we will and will not tolerate. While sh.itjust.works is a much larger instance, we've seen a large number of users who've shown racist, xenophobic, and homophobic tendancies towards our users and other users within threads.
The current problem seems to stem from reports not actively being federated to the offending instance for their admins and community moderators to deal with. The alternative to that is they're simply going ignored.
Either way, we unfortunately only have two tools at our disposal:
- Ban the individual accounts so the posts don't federate here
- Block the instance
There's simply no way right now to silence or otherwise "quarantine" instances that are experiencing an influx of 4chan and man-child trolls.
Edit: Also, to be clear, we try to use defederation as a last resort, and only in circumstances where the situation either requires vast amounts of attention (lack of moderators) or where the instance is "freeze peach" (no moderation), either of which is detrimental to the community.
Oops! Disabled this on our Cloudflare account, hopefully that stops happening!
Y’know, I never even thought to check for custom emotes! Most certainly needs added to the feature list.
I can unfortunately understand why Valve would tip off Nintendo, to avoid being directly liable because it’s not the standard DMCA provision.
But, at this point, emulation, where you legally have the game and console, shouldn’t be illegal and they shouldn’t be preventing it.
As for the decryption keys, rock and hard place. Either that needs to not be illegal, or it’s impossible to emulate a game legally. Since emulation isn’t illegal, the former shouldn’t be either.
This is an awesome write-up! I've run into the same issue trying to print QR and PDF417 barcodes on cards printed with the various Zebra ZXP printers I've got for testing with ConCat, but the same as you found, PDF417 appears to be far more reliable with the differing quality between each print.
I'd agree, and at the very least once a year would be ample time for an instance to resolve any issues. We're also open to instances reaching out to discuss refederation as well when they believe they've addressed the concerns listed on their deferation notice, both here and on Mastodon as well.