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.

  • @[email protected]
    -77•1 year ago

    I’m gonna give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you’re a second language speaker where “user” is a masculine noun, but other genders exist lol. I encourage you to use “themselves” instead.

    • TheWoozy
      37•1 year ago

      Akchually, since we’re being annoyingly corrective, shouldn’t it be “themself”?

      OR is it able-ist to assume the commentor does not express multiple personalities?

      • @[email protected]
        6•1 year ago

        Yeah I guess I reordered it “Just let the user decide themselves…” in my head.

        As I guessed the commenter was a German speaker. This is a very common occurrence and not something malicious (check like every boardgame from Germany referring to “the player” as “he”), just lost in translation.

        Never meant to be annoying or holier-than-thou, people can genuinely misunderstand that it’s some sexist remark, and so I pointed it out. Just said it so the commenter hopefully isn’t misunderstood in the future.

        So, if you feel that’s some woke-ass snowflake nonsense, be my guest lol

        • Tb0n3
          2•1 year ago

          On the internet whoever you’re conversing with is male unless explicitly stated. It really really does not matter since it’s all just randos on the internet anyway. Please note the large number of down votes you got for actually caring.

          • @[email protected]
            1•1 year ago

            On the internet whoever you’re conversing with is male unless explicitly stated

            “OH mY gOd, aRE yoU a GiRL???” In a game lobby.

            Same vibes.

            Just reiterating, that the original poster was German as I suspected, and pointing it out might spare them being misunderstood in the future. I have no regrets.