ShittyKopper [they/them]

Even in the most safe space-y parts of Mastodon (which has way more experience with trolls & assholes than Lemmy just by existing for longer), single user instances don’t get defederated without reason. So I’d be more in favor of reflecting inwards and wondering if there is a specific reason why they defed’d me.

The main issue you’re gonna encouter is CORS. There is no real upstream decision on loosening the existing CORS permissions. The alternative is to proxy every request from everyone which will not only get you rate limited but also you will have to deal with storing people’s authentication tokens which requires not only complete trust in every step of the way but also not accidentally messing things up and exposing them somewhere.

Honestly I’m not sure if we need file sharing to be federated. Just put up a link somewhere and let people download.

Or use torrents (with web seeds should no other seeders be around) if the files are gigantic enough

Communities are not exclusive to people from their own instances. Otherwise single-user instances like the one I’m replying from would be impossible.

The health of the fediverse depends on smaller instances existing. The fact that larger “untouchable” instances exist at all is harming the fediverse as we speak. Mastodon folk are already familiar with this problem regarding dot social & dot online.

That’s admins of other instances you’re federating with banning people from their own instances.

Feel free to go do that then

Please make sure that you’re only indexing Lemmy communities and Kbin magazines (i.e. not microblogs)

In the wider fediverse, there is an actual expectation of privacy beyond “well it’s technically possible to scrape everything so we may as well give up”. Several people (with reasons of innocent naivete & explicit and blatant malice alike) have tried making fediverse search engines, but all of them are either dead or blocked.

Lemmy/Kbin is in a unique position where global search does make some sense to have, due to it being a public forum focused on topics (and not people), but there is a very real chance that assholes could use an “unbounded” fediverse search engine to find vulnerable people (quite a few of them specifically fleeing to the fediverse to avoid that kind of problem) and harass them.

see also: gamersriseup

You create an account there probably because you are a star trek fan and want to show it off

Hell, they could’ve disabled account registration and just hosted the communities. Lemmy allows for that kind of flexibility