From a technical standpoint, there is no real difference, it comes down to how the instance owner feels it’s best to run the server.

Ultimately, instances (or at least the ones most people want to join) want to keep rulebreakers, trolls and spam out. There are two main ways of doing this:

• Proactively: By attempting to prevent bad actors from signing up in the first place.
• Reactively: Allow everyone to sign up, and ban bad actors when they misbehave.

Of course, there is a lot of debate as to which of these methods are better (beehaw, for example, fundamentally doesn’t think a reactive approach can work at all), which causes tension between some instances.

This tension can rise to a point where one instance “defederates” from another, meaning they stop talking to each other and you can’t interact with one if you have an account with the other.

In terms of Lemmy instances, assuming the feddit.de map is up to date, only beehaw, tucson.social and toons.zone have defederated. The first two presumably because of open signups.

However, afaik, Kbin doesn’t publish it’s blocklist, and the timing does make sense (last posts seem to be about 2-3 days ago), so it’s possible they have blocked it.

On the other hand, kbin.social had pretty much always had issues federating since the “migration”, so it could just be under load.

https://sub.rehab/ Is also useful, if you want to look up by subreddit.

Oh, did they make it easier in a patch sometime after release?

I will say, as I’ve grown older and more jaded, I’ve been finding the GPL more and more appealing…

Edit: Oh wow, why did a year old post show up at the top of “Hot”, sorry about bumping.

Actually started playing this for the first time a few days ago! Such a good game, very charming art style, and the mechanics and ideas are amazing. Certainly a game to go into blind, and just enjoy the experience.

I also did not realise it was secretly a soulslike, but it never really felt that punishing (as someone who never got past the first real boss of Elden Ring).

I don’t think so; I used “block” as a shorthand for defederate.

Agreed on doing it manually though, there only seems to be a handful of instances that are problematic, so we probably don’t need to use the python script.

Out of interest, since Chromium is open source, is there anything stopping Opera, Edge, Brave, etc. just mantaining support for the old manifest? Like, I’m not sure why this is such a big deal for anything other than Chrome and Chromium.

A flower garden.

Not like, evil or anything. Guy just really likes gardening.

IMO it’s pretty much the same case as email. With email you send data to some remote server which may or may not reside in the EU.

I’m not really sure what argument you can make that fediverse apps but not email break gdpr.

Or even something as simple as putting your email on a public website that may be visited by someone in the US.