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Go Private? (aussie.zone)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by lodion@aussie.zone to c/meta@aussie.zone

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Lemmy 0.19.11 (which I've just upgraded AZ to) has a new feature to allow regular federation, but require users be logged in to view content.

I'd like to gauge feedback from users on this. It will not add privacy, or limit the propagation of posts/comments etc. But it will limit AZ server resource consumption by bots or users that are not logged in.

Thoughts/concerns on enabling this feature?

Update: thank you all for your thoughts and feedback on this. We'll leave AZ as it is, though may use this feature in future if we need to mitigate attacks or other malicious traffic.

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[–] No1@aussie.zone 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I'd lean to leaving it open access.

Too many places become effectively 'walled gardens' and become difficult or impossible to just stumble across eg via search results etc.

Of course, there are the cost and performance considerations. idk if there's a way to monitor logged in vs others. Or is there some way to prioritize serving responses to logged in users? I guess lemmy may not have that capability, and I don't know how the server/instances are setup, but maybe split to have one server serving logged in users, and another to cater for 'the rest'?

Meh, it may be adding to complexity for little benefit.