Even if it’s just a recommendation on a different group in which to ask the question, I’m curious how Lemmy combats criminal activity and content like human trafficking, smuggling, terrorism, etc?

Is it just a matter of each node bans users when they identify a crime, and/or problematic nodes are defederated if they tolerate it?

And if defederated, does that mean each node has to individually choose to defederate from the one allowing criminal activity?

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    6 months ago

    To add on:

    If a problem user is on instance A, then it’s mainly up to the admins of instance A to deal with the user. Until that happens, other instances can block the problem user from their particular instance. Ideally instance A steps in and deals with the problem user quickly.

    If instance A is not dealing with the problem user, if there’s a wave of them on instance A, or if there’s an entire problem community, other instances will likely defederate (temporarily or permanently)