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   Preston Is Not My Real Name (prestontumber@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 16:55:40 JST Preston Is Not My Real Name

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   @feditips I was reading your excellent website (thank you for this great resource, btw, it's been very helpful) on the topic of defederation, and I found myself with a question that didn't seem to be answered. Is it possible for a server admin to take a whitelist-approach instead of a blacklist one? That is, to make defederation the default, but be able to selectively federate with some servers.

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     FediTips has moved! (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 16:55:38 JST FediTips has moved!

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     @prestontumber

     Not on Mastodon, at least not easily.

     However, there are other Fediverse server types which do take an allowlist approach such as @gotosocial

     (BTW the whitelist/blacklist thing is nowadays generally allowlist/blocklist 👍 )

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     @prestontumber

     I don't know anything about Dreamwidth hosting, sorry!

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     Preston Is Not My Real Name (prestontumber@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 21:10:28 JST Preston Is Not My Real Name

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     @feditips @gotosocial

     Thanks for the information! And the new terminology sounds good, I was wondering why I hadn't seen the older ones around much. I think the new ones make more sense.

     There was a post cautioning folks against hosting federated social media on Dreamwidth, have you seen it? It kinda spooked me.

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     Preston Is Not My Real Name (prestontumber@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 22:04:01 JST Preston Is Not My Real Name

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     @feditips Oh, I misspoke. What I meant was that I saw this article: https://denise.dreamwidth.org/91757.html

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     @prestontumber

     Ahh okay, yeah, legal issues are important to consider if you are running a public server. (Not so much if it's a private server.)

     This is going to be true for any public online service, whether it's federated or not.

     It's also going to vary depending on where you are, where the site is hosted etc etc.

     I'm not a lawyer, so my article tries to make clear that I can't advise on these particular things.

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     Preston Is Not My Real Name (prestontumber@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 22:16:18 JST Preston Is Not My Real Name

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     @feditips

     Thanks! It's a pity that Mastodon doesn't have features for an allowlist approach, I feel like if someone wanted a small but still public instance that would be a great technical tool to help mitigate some of those risks.

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     Mastodon does technically have an allowlist option called "Limited Federation Mode":

     https://fedi.tips/creating-an-isolated-server/

     However, it's not easily accessible and cannot be activated within the admin interface. You would need someone with system administrator skills to put your server into this mode.