As far as I know, at least in my instance, we're just defederating from instances full of bots or even worse, nazis.
this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2023
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Well, beehaw defederated lemmy.world, so by this logic, we're all nazis.
Are we the baddies?
Always have been
I'm a member of both and am enjoying both.
Yeah, that's the point.
If I remember correctly, they defederated because they wanted to keep the instance similar to how it was before the Reddit Migration. I might be wrong tho.
As I know, they defederated, because of open registration policy, here's a full post https://beehaw.org/post/567170. The point stands, federation doesn't work as of today.
I'm getting a 404 on that link
User-side 'defederation' or some sort of soft defederation later on would be great.
The use of de-federation as a super downvote button isn't the way.
Though it's very easy to do, just call the instance a nazi bar and suddenly everyone is ready to de-federate apparently.