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:
- General discussion: Let’s talk about ClubsAll (the ClubsAll founder left comments in this post)
- Recent update to that general discussion: As a reminder, ClubsAll is still showing all of Lemmy’s content without federating back
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?
I don’t want to strangle anyone’s project in the crib, but it needs post attribution at the very least. I can understand it being a project in the early stages, but it’s not hard to include info on the source of the posts.
However, if they had that but weren’t yet open source and had only one-way federation, I would be open to giving them a date to hit for those. I don’t like the idea of one-way federation, nor of federation with a closed-source project, but to take the dev at face value and allow them a time frame of 6 months or so to clear it up would be acceptable.
All that being said, as it stands now I would vote to defederate due to the lack of attribution. It is the very least that could be done and shouldn’t be hard to implement.