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lemmy.fmhy.ml's stance on defederation (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I agree. But to me personally, I think people Oh lemmy WANT censorship and so forth. Really kills the experience honestly

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Each instance will have different perspective on it. Some would obviously censor more stuff than us. It will depend on the user what kind of experience he is looking for.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also, what happens if I have an account in an instance that suddenly gets backlash for some arbitrary reason and other instances block it? Would I be able to migrate to one of those blocking instances?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right now no, you'll have to create a seperate account.

But account migration is one of the most requested features so I think it'll be implemented soon-ish.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

But even if it gets implemented, I think you would need a third instance that has not blocked your originating instance and that is not blocked by your target instance. Anyway, its a worst case scenario.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Censorship? No, but moderation would be great.

[–] ImFresh3x 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some people see basic moderation as censorship. Personally I’m ok with banning bigotry. I see that as basic moderation. And yeah, that is censorship.

There should be places edgy bigots can do their thing, I guess, but it shouldn’t be on the front page of Lemmy. Or in comment threads in general communities. Moderation will be essential if we want this places to grow, and for instances to interact.