AFAIK, Mastodon does it more on an opt-out basis: servers declare which other servers they are going to refuse traffic from. The admin community has been gradually building some consensus lists of bad actors, and IIRC Gargron has finally knuckled under and accepted that the reference implementation should provide each mechanisms to import such lists in an automated way.
I suspect that Nusenet would want to be opt-in as a general rule -- the scale of the modern Internet is big enough that I wouldn't want to assume that every server accepts every group. But it might work similarly to how Mastodon deals with A/V traffic: stuff only hits your server dynamically, when requested. If servers were smallish (as most Mastodon servers are), then opting in to the groups that are requested by your users and not banned could make sense.
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Date: 2023-06-19 12:37 pm (UTC)AFAIK, Mastodon does it more on an opt-out basis: servers declare which other servers they are going to refuse traffic from. The admin community has been gradually building some consensus lists of bad actors, and IIRC Gargron has finally knuckled under and accepted that the reference implementation should provide each mechanisms to import such lists in an automated way.
I suspect that Nusenet would want to be opt-in as a general rule -- the scale of the modern Internet is big enough that I wouldn't want to assume that every server accepts every group. But it might work similarly to how Mastodon deals with A/V traffic: stuff only hits your server dynamically, when requested. If servers were smallish (as most Mastodon servers are), then opting in to the groups that are requested by your users and not banned could make sense.