Interesting bit of news for the threadiverse. All three of these are fairly large lemmy instances

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    1 year ago

    Some of yā€™all getting angry need to look at yourself in the mirror. The whole point of federation was to allow communities to do things like this if they want.

    A lot of new people are going to see this mudslinging and rightfully turn around. Nobody is coming to Lemmy to see drama between instances.

    • spaduf@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      I do think itā€™s fair to criticize the decision to try to be one of the largest instances while only having four moderators. They should have accepted a place as a midsize instance with midsize communities in order to maintain their moderation goals. Or they could have worked to get more moderators. Blaming the defederated instances and mod tools seem disingenuous at best. That said mod tools undoubtedly need improvement.

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      I thought the whole point of federation was that everything from every federated instance was connected and I only need one account to see every part of it. The fact that federation has been the only discussion since the blackout is not good for the alternatives to reddit. My whole life is tech and if itā€™s this distracting to me I canā€™t imagine any remotely average user being interested. The fact that this was the perfect time to be part of an alternative but the whole experience has mostly just proven reddits ā€œgive it a weekā€ response true.

      • SQL_InjectMe@partizle.com
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        I thought the whole point of federation was that everything from every federated instance was connected and I only need one account to see every part of it.

        No. If an instance hosts toxic communities then your instance can choose to defederate from it. You donā€™t have to wait for the centralized authority to ban them. Itā€™s about being able to choose your admins and form a web of ā€œgoodā€ communities.