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?
I may be wrong, but as I understand it fundementally as part of the fediverse I don’t think they’re obligated to do anything, there’s no greater site policy to uphold.
They could host whatever content and discussion they want, and if that means their local government comes down on them for it and shuts the server down, then so be it, but Lemmy as a platform on its own I don’t believe combats anything cross-instance. Each instance would just have its own rules and mods would ban users or defederate accordingly.
So basically a silk road alternative, but not really because it would be much easier to track down and remove a node? Or is it possible to also hide a node and rely on forcing de-federation?