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So would seem that recently Sunbeamcity.com has stated that their administrative position is to support and protect doxxing when they deem it appropriate.
This puts people at real danger especially considering the poor reputation the person doing the doxxing has (a laundry list of false accusations with no evidence).
The question I want to ask, should the QOTO policy be updated t include a clause where we defederate from any instance that supports doxxing?
Vote if you'd like but ultimately the comments will decide where I stand on the issue.
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@freemo You'll have to defederate from me if so 😭
If people make their info public, they don't get to cry that it isn't private, that's how I see it.
What's the cost? What is sunbeamcity.com's content worth to your users? That's the first thing I'd consider, how infrastructure level changes affect my users.
What's the payout? Breaking federation doesn't seem to solve the issue of "malicious users exist" presented, so it would be a poor response in my opinion, even if the cost is low.
If it's just a matter of curating what shows up in TWKN you could 'quiet' the instance with MRFs (presuming you're using Pleroma) without breaking federation which might be a preferable option.
We are a fork off mastodon, so more similar to mastodon.
I do agree silencing might be better. The key here are two fold 1) let the server know their administrative policies, when explicitly harmful, have consequences 2) limit the amount of information malicious actors have access to.
#1 makes me hesitant and is why we general dont defederate, it should be a users choice. But #2 is appealing to me.
2. As in "not let the evil haxor know the precious toots of qoto"? Then you should also close up public access to local/federated timelines, making qoto "registered user only", and then maybe also block all instances that don't block the evil haxor, for good measure... sounds good?
Unless you mean something like preventing malicious actors on qoto(or instance federating with qoto) from having access to information publicized on the evil instance? I don't think that's effective either, the information will remain public even if all other instances block it, and the doxer can always post it anywhere else they wish. If anything, silencing/blocking them will be most effective at preventing users in qoto from knowing that they might have been doxed (or that someone embarrassed themselves by failing at it).
