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Go Private? (aussie.zone)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I think an important part of the pitch for federated instances is being on one instance while interacting with another. If someone new can't do this before they make their account, could they get the impression that we're unfederated? I worry that it might give the illusion that we're a "dead", insular site, at least as a first impression.