Individual cities in my home country are beginning to consider banning the fediverse
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this post was submitted on 30 Dec 2024
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U be into something tbh
I'm into a lot of things 😏
It would be fun to see the consequences of defederating the main developer's instance from most other instances. They'd probably begin seriously changing the codebase and licensing.
Where is your home country, that they're considering a ban like this?
I thought the fediverse was supposed to make things easier to enjoy
Rule of everything #1: everything good turns to shit.
I like my instance (SDF): they don't block any other instance. They let individual users do it for themselves.
They dont block anything? Like they dont block pedo shit? I dont wanna have to keep track of whos got pedo shit just to block them i want my instance to do that for me (hence why i dont self host). Other than that i like the idea.
As far as I can tell, they federate with everybody. No Blocked tab in their instance page, and the few instances I checked out that are blocked by other instances were linked by SDF.
That's kind of why I went with SDF when I opened my Lemmy account: I don't want anybody to tell what I can and cannot read. If I find an instance I can't stand, it's easy enough to block the instance in the Settings nowadays:
I haven't seen any pedo stuff on Lemmy.
They don't even seem to ban abusive users, SDF is really hands off when it comes to the whole instance moderation thing. Which is actually kind of terrifying, means abusive communities stand forever there.
I'd say do it. Seems mostly some lemmy.ml drama to me. I quit all the .ml communities a few months ago, and instead subscribed to the same ones on all the other instances. I'm quite happy with the result.
(I figured, you can't keep complaining all the time. At some point you need to do something. Like leave and switch to a nicer instance.)
.ml admins be like:
- talking neutrally about which .ml admin took a moderative action in a .ml community, referring to them by the pseudonym used within .ml - "you is doxxing lol"
- connecting the online identities of the same person across multiple sites, in a way that is clearly violating their privacy, to stir up drama within a discussion - "lets do this lmao"
Yeah. Rules for thee, not for me; users = "cattle to be herded".
inb4 "but those were different people!" - it doesn't matter when you're part of a team dammit. Users have the right to not be gaslighted on what they're allowed or not to do within a community, even if you own that community.
It's this sort of shit that made me migrate out of .ml, even if I'm Marxist myself. And I encourage OP to do the same.
I have been saying that .ml is more than just obnoxious for a while now. They are a legitimate security threat to the broader fediverse. The sooner we rip off that bandaid the better
Unfortunately, the main Lemmy devs live there
Okay, so what? It's not like if they become widely defederated there's anything they can do about it. Even if they pushed out an update to remove defederation or make lemmy.ml unable to be defederated, instances can either A. Refuse to accept the update, or B. Block lemmy.ml's IP via their Server's Firewall, that stops all federation actions in or out.
Ive noticed that said more extreme viewpoints are starting to migrate to other instances. I fear the fediverse (specificly lemmy) has become a nazi bar except we got tankies instead of nazis.
If you really want to see just how bad your instance's admins and moderation are, check out [email protected].
Have you considered just moving to a new instance? I like my slrpnk instance.