For the record, @dachary warned me about the removal (just to give credits about his efforts on getting good moderation, which is never easy). And after discussing with @dachary on IRC, I also realize that the codeberg moderation case is interesting for fedeproxy, since this also something that should be kept in account. It bring a few questions:
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how would Fedeproxy react if a repo is removed by the upstream forge (whatever the reason for removal), eg, should it propagate the removal, warn user, warn admin, etc ?
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given the original repo involved (cloudflare-tor) was copied all over the place (I found copies on several small independent forges), would the mass copy be a task made easier by fedeproxy, and so should some limitation be placed somewhere ? eg, if I am a admin of a fedeproxy instance and I want to avoid that, how would it go ?
In the end, it also bring the question of federated moderation, and while the cloudflare-tor case is I guess controversial, I can imagine a regular spam repo wouldn’t be as controversial while likely using the same system.
There is maybe no good answers yet (or ever), but I guess theses are questions we must keep in mind.