Hello, sh.itjust.works community. I am curious what you think about ClubsAll, and whether you think we should stay federated with them. A few other Lemmy instances have recently defederated so this seems like a timely topic for discussion.
In short, ClubsAll is an ActivityPub-compatible Reddit clone. The site currently has one-way federation with no attribution: ClubsAll pulls content from Lemmy and displays it as local ClubsAll content. For example, you can visit https://clubsall.com/c/196 and there is no indication that the content is from https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/c/196.
Here are relevant posts with more information and context:
- General discussion: Let’s talk about ClubsAll (the ClubsAll founder left comments in this post)
- Recent update to that general discussion: As a reminder, ClubsAll is still showing all of Lemmy’s content without federating back
In the first post the ClubsAll founder commented that they plan to eventually have two-way federation, and to make the project open source. Whether those things actually happens is anyone’s guess.
What do you think?
How about giving some leeway if they have indicated the intent to fully federate? Say, if they don’t support bidirectional federation with 6 months (?), they will be defederated provisionally until they do. That way, we’re still taking their declared intent in good faith, but not being a pushover.
I like this solution.
Seems reasonable. I don’t have any technical complaint with what they’re doing, but it feels icky as long as there’s no attribution.
That seems fair.