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.
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?
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.
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.