IMHO, the big problem is that defederating causes a bunch of problems when you’re cutting ties with an instance that is 99.9% good actors.
Sure, you cut out the trolls, but you also totally fuck up the user experience for the vast majority of well intentioned people.
Example, I’m on Lemmy.world, and my wife is on beehaw. We often both comment to a Lemmy.ml community, and neither of us can see each others comments even though Lemmy.ml is neutral ground.
Yeah this along with having more communities aligned with my interests is why I joined programming.dev. I like beehaw’s communities, and lost a good 6-7 communities when they defederated from the other two big ones.
So I moved to a third instance, to get used to this place until I set my own up sometime in the near future.
Yup. I’m also moving between instances. I have multiple accounts. All I do is browse and meme anyway. I don’t need a “home address” with a doorbell. Liftoff app is improving it’s inbox and currently you can switch very fast between servers’ inboxes. The problem is more that I have to make a lot more effort than I would if this weren’t happening, and that many people don’t even know they aren’t “stuck” with their first account.
How can she comment on lemmy.ml if beehaw defederated it? I don’t quite get what defederation does
Eh, having read the information provided upfront by beehaw upon joining their instance, I find it unsurprising that they’d block an instance that allows something as discriminatory as the_donald. I’m on a different instance altogether, but I wouldn’t be surprised if our server owner is keeping an eye on that situation as well. I know we’ve already defederated from a few such as lemmygrad, and one of our rules is “No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, or casteism,” which is one of the reason I joined this instance in the first place.
There are plenty of instances you can join that allow Republicanism, Stalinism, Maoism, or whichever other extremist communities you want to see. Personally, I’m not looking for another reddit. I want something better than that.
