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They get defederated wherever they get consistently banned...and then they can federate with their friends and make their community of shit and yell at each other or something.
Can it be practical if several instances get created programmatically?
I believe there is a whitelist mode, that isn't currently enabled but in that mode new instances are defederated by default. That would be a pain to administer for all the small instances joining, so they may set some size or reputation rules to apply for federation (??). I imagine this is inevitable if automated instance spamming becomes a problem, unless some type of RBL comes in vogue for managing federation first. It may become impossible to manage manually.
E: oh the whitelist thing may only be relevant to kbin federation, as that was the topic I saw it in. Sometimes I forget where I am :-/
No, you were correct - Lemmy's admin settings has an
Allowed Instances
setting, which acts as an allowlist for federation. If you put an instance (or more, separated by,
's) then your instance will only federate with the ones specified in that list.