By illegal I mean a lot of things It could either be piracy, black market, child pornography, etc.

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    1 year ago

    Groups of defederated instances could then stay federated between each of them. Don’t you guys fear that this could cause at some point a lot of harm to Lemmy’s public image?

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      If all the instances hosting illegal content federated with each other it would be easier for law enforcement to take them down

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      This has already been happening with Mastodon for years. It creates a need for instance admins to stay on top of defederating from those instances, and from instances that refuse to defederate from those instances. It doesn’t particularly impact public perception of Mastodon overall.