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Hi, I've noticed that bot@lemmit.online has been banned.
Since that account posts all of the content on that instance, this is essentially equivalent to defederating from lemmit.online.
I realize that not everybody likes lemmit.online since it is all just reposts from Reddit, but it seems like it would be preferable to just put it on the default block list instead of banning the content entirely for all users. I personally like being able to read content from Reddit here without having to give Reddit my traffic.
Would it be possible to unban?

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[โ€“] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's fine to be up to the user. But it's also fine to say it's just a spam account and block it to save bandwidth. Easy for me to say, of course, since I'm already not seeing the content.

The cool thing about the fediverse is that no one really controls the whole thing, so I give a lot of deference to folks who want to run things their own way. Anyone with a strong option that it needs to be done differently can stand up their own instance pretty easily.

Or to summarize, you have a point but that doesn't oblige the server to be run that way.

[โ€“] frongt@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 weeks ago

True, but I'm not sure that it's a significant load on the server. In terms of disk space the biggest impact is probably image hosting; does that content get mirrored? Text posts are negligible. Or quantity of database items might affect queries.