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Discussion about ClubsAll (sh.itjust.works)

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:

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?

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[-] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago

If I wanted to start another Reddit, this is what I would do. Hell, siphoning content from Reddit is still done in many places on Lemmy to stock the pond. In this case, we have the opportunity to stop it before a competing platform takes off. If they’re not going to play by the rules of federation, they don’t deserve the bounty.

[-] vinay_clubsall@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Hello @baggachipz@sh.itjust.works are there some documented rules of federation that I am missing? Please point me.

[-] Blaze@feddit.org 1 points 18 hours ago

rules of federation that I am missing

If you federate content in, federate your own content out

[-] vinay_clubsall@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

This is based on what feels fair to you and not a documented rule. The issue is that everyone has their own version of what is fair - federate out, self hosted, open source, attribution, usernames shown in particular way, exemption (or no exemption) for smaller sites based on time or traffic and so on.

In any case, this is a goal we are working towards. As we discussed before, this will be done before ClubsAll has any meaningful traffic.

this post was submitted on 13 Dec 2024
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