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Out of Curiosity how would a Lemmy instance handle another Instance Circumventing Defederation

I was thinking, what really stops a defederated lemmy instance from changing their domain name and/or IP address to evade defederation or re-federate against another admins’ decision to defederate. If someone was doing that, say buying garbage domains and changing their lemmy Instance domain to force federate with people who didn’t want them how would the Instances who are Victim to that deal with the situation. Is there any way they could really deal with it if the person was persistent enough?

Asking because I’m thinking of starting my own lemmy instance but I’m kind of worried about this happening to me since a similar thing happened to me years back running an XMPP server.

hsl ,
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This is a better question for !selfhosted given that it’s about hosting Lemmy. Removing per rule #3.

Carighan ,
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Well far as I can tell they’d need to be defederated again.

It’s an inherent flaw, but also as far as I understand it’d also mean all communities would have to be re-pulled and that only happens as someone accesses them. Meaning that by itself a newly federated “copycat” instance would not actually show any communities or content on the isntance it federates itself to.

Lemmy is pull-based, not push-based.

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