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

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] 2 points 5 days ago

It's a bit of a tough sell to not let anyone interested in joining in see anything first. I know it's federated, but it's still a bit, I don't know, hostile(?) or something. If you feel the need to close off then the troops will largely accept the decision, but if you feel you can manage without doing that I'd definitely prefer to keep things accessible when feasible.