Following the announcement by beehaw admins to defederate from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works, there has been many posts and messages regarding that decisions and what other instances will do.

I personally believe Lemmy/kbin can only thrive if there is a free flow of content between different instances, with instance admins taking a back seat and focusing more on the infrastructure and making sure the technical bugs are smoothened out. Community mods can moderate their communities, and users can block the communities they don’t find appealing (there’s even a toggle in settings to hide every NSFW post from your feed altogether).

We don’t want to create walled gardens, nor do we want to make Lemmy more confusing than it already is for new users. We will not be defederating from any instance if there is even one good community on it that our instance users might find useful. So far we have only blocked lemmygrad.ml, and right now we have no plans to block anyone else.

      • 0x4E4F@lemmy.fmhy.ml
        8·
        2 years ago

        You really have bo idea what you’re talking about, do you… have you even visited the communities in lemmygrad?

          • 0x4E4F@lemmy.fmhy.ml
            6·
            2 years ago

            Have ever visited lemmygrad? Do you have an account there? Why do their views differ so much than the ones from the western word? Aren’t westerners (the US in particular) the ones that basically forcefully made other countries capitalist, by means of war in most cases, and called that liberation of the people? And did they not exploit those countries natural resources by calling that free capital market?

            They may have extremist views, but they’re not faschists, I can tell you that much. And not all of them have extremist views, I’ve lead some prety decent conversations there.

            • Fizz@lemmy.nz
              13·
              2 years ago

              Most people don’t like extremist views. Its jarring for a lot of people when they see people praising dictators and regimes that killed millions of people.

              • 0x4E4F@lemmy.fmhy.ml
                3·
                2 years ago

                It’s easy to point a finger when history says that only 1 person is responsible for this or that… the same could be said about the US or any other country that did atrocities over a larger time period but the one ruled by 1 president… yet those people are heroes, but this 1 particular person in history is really really bad.

                Come on, wake up, everyone did their part in destruction around the globe, yet some are considered heroes, others villans.

                • Fizz@lemmy.nz
                  7·
                  2 years ago

                  I know but growing up in the west you pretty much by default support democracy so I dont like seeing people who are supporting people like stalin, Mao, Xi. I also dont like seeing people supporting American imperialism but thats more ingrained in my cultural sphere.

                  • 0x4E4F@lemmy.fmhy.ml
                    2·
                    2 years ago

                    Fine, you don’t like seing posts like that? Just block the first 10 communities on lemmygrad.

                    On the other hand, I enjoy most of their posts, but I can’t enjoy them from my main account, or this one, I had to make an account on lemmygard because everyone defederates from them. Now tell me that that is fair. It’s basically the same logic that beehaw applied to 2 other instances, but people are pissed off about that, but not this 🤨. Why? Just because they’re blocked from their favorite communities? Maybe I feel the same about lemmygrad, but not only am I being shunned for it, my question is not even under discussion, it’s natural to block tankies, tankies - no no, games - yes please.