How do you mean? Lemmy is open source, anyone can create an instance, they don’t need the developers permission… And other instances are free to defederate from them.
Yeah … But that power is only in their hands because the rest of us are complacent, like for me I don’t think I have the time to take over lemmy development :/
How? Hexbear decided to make their fork compatible with Lemmy again and to federate. And as you know plenty of instances defederated with hexbear since.
except they make decisions that affect the entirety of lemmy, such as introducing Hexbear into the fediverse
How do you mean? Lemmy is open source, anyone can create an instance, they don’t need the developers permission… And other instances are free to defederate from them.
Ah, so I am not the only one suffering from posts from that instance. Hexbear was so bad I had to block that instance from appearing in my feed.
I wish I could. That does not work on kbin. Wonder why that is.
Yeah … But that power is only in their hands because the rest of us are complacent, like for me I don’t think I have the time to take over lemmy development :/
What’s Hexbear?
Another tankie instance
Oh, okay but do the Lemmy devs really have control over who starts an instance? Isn’t this the whole point of the fediverse or do I have it wrong?
They don’t have control over instances, no. However they can deny tech support or delisting your instance with others across the fediverse.
What are you talking about? What specific support hexbear needs?
Censorship, we need more censorship
What do you mean?
More censorship to Lemmy, ban by IP, and defederate any instance that doesn’t only post about politics, and take them to the court
Don’t the Lemmy devs and the Hexbears moderators have overlapping people?
Nah, that’s lemmygrad
I wondered the same for kbin.
How? Hexbear decided to make their fork compatible with Lemmy again and to federate. And as you know plenty of instances defederated with hexbear since.
The devs helped assist with that.
I know - but how does that affect any other instance? Doesn’t stop us from defederating.