Complacency isn’t a legitimate defense against criminal activity and corporations are extremely litigious over piracy. Would you rather lemmy.world spend all their money on fighting lawsuits, or building a better instance?

Any community that is creating questionable content should create their own instance and not seek open federation with the entire fediverse. That kind of behavior is reckless and counterproductive to what we’re trying to do here.

Maybe a better idea is a service that has a centralized list of instances and their communities. Allow any instance/community to opt into advertising their link to this service.

Then any instance that wants to pull down the full list can opt in and sync their bot. Because everyone is syncing the same list, everyones bot would be subscribed to the same things.

I think maybe the best idea would be able to let communities opt into different types of lists like news, memes, tech, gaming, etc. That way instances/communities could choose what types of communities to sync with if they have very specific purposes.