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They blocked Lemmygrad at my office, but Hexbear is standing strong
This is a big part of why I think it is a good idea to permit open federation, rather than an explicit allowlist. Gives us the benefit of privacy to browse Hexbear / Lemmygrad content by using a federated instance. Basically allows for infinite proxies and block circumvention. Obviously, this comes with the moderation effort cost.
Lemmy should implement read-only or vote-only federation, so we could benefit from this proxying while also not allowing libs to run roughshod on our beautiful moderators and marginalized folks.
I think it's better to not require constant vigilance of the admins for each time someone opens a new loli[dot]win instance or some libertarian dreck, though of course I repeat myself.
Hence why I thought this was a better solution. We don't have to let them participate.
I think the concern is their posts federating to our [all] feeds. Not letting them participate in our posts is one thing, but then there's not exposing our users to their posts.