I've seen the controversy where lemmy.world defederated from 2 piracy instances. So since there is no one big owner what is stopping someone creating a instance that host CP or other illegal stuff?

From what it seems like is instances can try to defederate from those instances but the only justice that can happen seems only from government/police but that only works in certain countries because more can just pop up bypassing the defederation.

I'm kinda concerned if this issue has no solution because it's a pretty sharp edge of the double edge sword of having instances anyone can create and host.

Because someone can just host a CP instance and now that instance even if defederated from other instances still provides a safe space for pedophiles to share content and other illegal stuff.

Also what is stopping someone from creating an instance that has a slur for its name and then go around in other federated instances and post comments and make post. Like you don't want someone named "NAZI_LOVER@n-word.f-slur

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[–] untrainedtribble@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’ve had the same thought. Can anyone make an instance and it’s automatically federated? It would make sense that to join the federation there would be an application process, gaining approval by receiving so many votes by already federated instances. But that doesn’t exist as far as I know and I’m sure would create a whole other set of issues and politics and skew the general idea here that this place is decentralized

[–] TheOneCurly@lemmy.theonecurly.page 5 points 1 year ago

Lemmy federation only starts when a user on your instance searches for and subscribes to a community on another one. So unless a user on your instance goes searching for cp it's not really an issue.

[–] muddybulldog@mylemmy.win 1 points 1 year ago

Federation is enabled by default. Defedersting takes explicit action..