Let me give you my opinion, specifically as a React developer, if you don’t mind.

And let’s be clear: I intend this to be a constructive criticism. I hope you understand and don’t take it the wrong way.

To be honest, I don’t know how good or bad federating one-way is. This is more of a “people” problem rather than a technical problem.

But, to be honest, what I am bothered by, is the fact that the website doesn’t give an attribution in the UI about which instance certain users are from and which instance certain certain community are from.

Take a look at this post: https://clubsall.com/posts/theyre-trying-to-charge-luigi-with-terrorism-imagine-that-qfF82

The UI says that the post was posted by u[slash]BytesOnBikes. If I didn’t know better, I’d have assumed this was from a user from clubsall. But if you click the username, you realize that the link says u[slash]BytesOnBikes[at]slrpnk.net. I think this would be confusing as a user. What if there is the same user under the username BytesOnBikes from clubsall? At least if you include the instance name, user would know right away that both users are different. But if you didn’t include the instance name, I feel like this can be abused to impersonate user. This is a bad thing to happen to your website, don’t you agree?

Now that we both understand that lack of attribution is a bad thing to clubsall… What’s stopping you from adding an instance name to the username? I’m sure the app has a way to know which instance certain users are from. From what I gather, I feel like this is as easy as appending a string in the code.

I haven’t even talked about the community name on the UI. Or the ethicality of misleading attribution.