vanta@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months ago41% of fediverse instances have blocked threads so far!!!tech.lgbtexternal-linkmessage-square587fedilinkarrow-up11.25Karrow-down1114 cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squaretoasteecup@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·7 months agoHonest question, how would they be able to do damage via the federation protocol? My understanding was that it sends data regarding posts comments and actions to all servers. The closest I thought I had was some kind of instance ban but while that gets federated, it doesn’t result in a ban elsewhere Instance a bans user foobar Instance b sees this information but foobar is not banned by instance b. We saw some of that with the hexbear drama a couple of months back
Honest question, how would they be able to do damage via the federation protocol?
My understanding was that it sends data regarding posts comments and actions to all servers.
The closest I thought I had was some kind of instance ban but while that gets federated, it doesn’t result in a ban elsewhere
Instance a bans user foobar Instance b sees this information but foobar is not banned by instance b.
We saw some of that with the hexbear drama a couple of months back