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
    3·
    2 years ago

    That is your POV, my POV is none should defederate ever… and if I do open my own instance, that will be the one and only rule. Do whatever TF you like, just don’t ask to defederate with anyone, we won’t have that.

    • Fizz@lemmy.nz
      2·
      2 years ago

      If you open your own instance then no one will defed with you. They will just block you. It sucks but keep your commie shit on your commie instance. When mods on other instances have to keep banning people from your instance you are going to get de-federated. if your mods are pro active in banning users that are causing issues on other instances then that instance wont be de-federated. It seems lemmy doesn’t currently have the mod tools to support this line of thinking which is unfortunate.

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

        It sucks but keep your commie shit on your commie instance.

        Ah, yes, the capitalists srike back 😂. Pretty calm until you mention communism or socialism and then everyone comes after you 😂.

        Whatever, this just feels like another reddit. Those with power expressing their will on the ones that don’t have it. Might as well go back to Reddit, at least there’s good shitposts there.

        • Fizz@lemmy.nz
          1·
          2 years ago

          Sorry I didn’t mean to be rude that’s just how I talk. This is ment to “just be another reddit” except unlike reddit where you have to constantly worry about your community getting wiped off the platform here you can rest assured there’s always a place for it.

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

            I don’t even have a commuity there… plus, I usually just scroll through linux/dev communities and shitposts, they’re never going away.