It’d be nice if the admins got everyone’s input on these sorts of things. Admins making decisions without thought to our opinions is what drove us here from reddit. I’m not going to lose sleep over hexbear defederation in particular, but it’s a disconcerting precedent.
I know I can just leave to another instance, but I’ve started [email protected] here and don’t want to have to move that too 😓
(Apologies if this isn’t the place to share suggestions. Also I do appreciate the hard work the admins are doing. My sincere thanks!!)
Instead of pushing back against your opinion, I must confess what you said would work if there was a seamless way to move accounts and communities from one instance to another. Unfortunately that’s currently not the case.
It’s also worth noting that an instance itself can change philosophy. It seems .world is moving from generic Lemmy to pro-world bank/imf/NATO Lemmy. I’m not necessarily for or against any of that, but I signed up for a generic Lemmy, not an echo chamber.
On your first point, there are tools already for migrating accounts although still in their early stages. For example, https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim allows you to move subs and blocks to a new account in another instance, but not posts and comments. I don’t think there’s a tool yet to move a community as a mod though.
Moving a community is my main concern. Also, that utility doesn’t seem to allow moving post/comment history to the new account, unless I missed it.
People have freedom on the Fediverse. That’s all there is to it. If people want to support a particular view on a particular Instance that they own, then they should be able to do that. Users that disagree with it are free to organize themselves in a different way.
This is vastly preferable to trying to control the behavior of one admin, simply because he happened to grow large the quickest. He should have the same freedom that we do, since none of us are forced to remain here on the server that he owns.
Again, I’d agree with you if it were seamless to move between instances. In fact, what you’re suggesting is far superior to hoping an all-powerful admin would forever uphold ideals around a free and open internet, even when inconvenient. However, Lemmy isn’t there yet.