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How do you stop really nasty stuff from getting to your instance?
(I know nothing about how and when fediverse transfers data)
Since I am on a single user instance, the instance receives only stuff from the communities I subscribe to.
This means that I just select what I am interested in.
So far after over 1 year I never seen a single "dangerous" piece of stuff, so I think the risk is a bit overstated.
The downside is that my "all/everything" feed is identical to my subscribed feed, bummer.
As someone who also runs a single user instance, lemmy uses the protocol activitupub, and the way I federate my server is auto federate with any instance federated by piefed.social bc I like rimu@piefed.social ethics.