• work is slow
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    261 year ago

    They are curating their instance in a particular way which is the very thing that the fediverse and lemmy allows for. Some people are butthurt that they aren’t included.

    The slightly more detailed explanation is that there has been a big increase in bots and trolls and due to a lack of moderation tools they opted for defederating with instances that conflicted with their goal. That goal seems to be an easy going and tolerant community. By nature this goal means that it will be a smaller community and for some reason that has angered people.

    • @[email protected]
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      131 year ago

      They are curating their instance in a particular way which is the very thing that the fediverse and lemmy allows for. Some people are butthurt that they aren’t included.

      But we also are allowed to laugh at them, right?

    • @HerrLewakaas
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      111 year ago

      Seems to me like they’re not really fit for the fediverse if they are just gonna defederate everyone, but whatever, they have every right to do it

      • @[email protected]
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        231 year ago

        They aren’t defederating everyone. They are selectively defederating the instances they don’t like. Or selectively federating the instances they do like. Which is exactly how the fediverse is meant to work.

        If you like the instances they don’t like, or vice versa, then you should make your account on an instance other than theirs. Which is also how the fediverse is meant to work.

          • @[email protected]
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            41 year ago

            I don’t mind that they defederated a random Mastodon instance called “rapefeminists”. Almost all of these are from some list of bad Mastodon servers. Lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works are the only controversial ones (and temporary)

      • @[email protected]
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        111 year ago

        The ability to defederate anyone is literally what defines federation. There is no “the fediverse” unilaterally, that’s the entire point.

        • @HerrLewakaas
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          01 year ago

          Yes, but at some point you gotta ask the question why even be in the fediverse if you’re so picky about who you wanna federate with. I personally would want my instance to federate with everyone, I can pick what I want to see myself. But as I said, their decision.

          • @[email protected]
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            21 year ago

            Everyone is just by default assuming they want to be part of the fediverse, rather than they saw Lemmy as the most viable piece of software to realize the type of platform/community they’re want to create. They’ve made clear from the start that they want a more heavily moderated and curated community, and that is by definition going to be mean excluding people and instances that go against that.

      • @[email protected]
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        101 year ago

        I hate to see that people are so disturbed at what others are doing on another community@instance that simply blocking it on their account isn’t enough. Nonsensical. And the logical conclusion is producing nothing more than a Reddit clone with many of the same weaknesses.

      • deejay4am
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        41 year ago

        Yeah they’re just doing it temporarily because their mod team can’t handle the influx of 60k bots and trolls over the course of a week with the current state of lemmy mod tools just because Reddit decided to off itself in a grand and public way.

        But just like Reddit drama, feel free to make a judgement without the facts and spread rumors based on hearsay. It’ll really help them want to open back up ASAP when we’re all over here like “hurrr fuk u quitters durrrr”

    • @Tetsuo666
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      111 year ago

      Honestly, reading the comments of some out there regarding this issue. I’m starting to think that they did the right choice.

      It doesn’t take long to find fairly rude or insulting content regarding this.

      Most people have no reason to care if a small instance decided to sail away.

      It’s disappointing because I think this platform is already turning into reddit in term of tone/aggressiveness.

      And it’s not even just comments, it’s upvoting memes that are genuinely rude or targeting a specific community. I don’t like the way this is going.

      • @XanXic
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        Most people have no reason to care if a small instance decided to sail away.

        They weren’t a small instance though. They had pretty much established all of the default subs and then when they had like the top 10 largest communities on all of Lemmy they decided to start threatening defederating servers, closed their registration, and taking the largest communities away from them. Pretty much right as Lemmy was starting to build up some momentum essentially the largest instance was like “time to establish dominance and flex our power”

        They’ve apparently defederated from 400 servers and still have 4 of the top 10 largest communities. Like yeah defederation is a tool of Lemmy but their using it like a threat and now they are demanding other instances follow their lead if they want re-federated. Then they try to boohoo about how running the largest subs with 4 mods is infeasible with the current tools and that’s everyone else’s fault.

        Like Lemmy is barely off the ground and there’s already power mods and they are already trying to control the whole thing.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 year ago

          397 of those are spammy Mastodon instances and 1 is Lemmygrad. You can just say they defederated from the 2 other biggest instances.

      • work is slow
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        81 year ago

        I completely understand why people would want a tighter instance. I started using Reddit significantly less awhile ago because a good chunk of the content and comments were either misinformed, malicious, or both. I’m hopeful that large instances can foster friendlier and healthier cultures, but right now I’m seeing so many people willing to make excuses for assholes and blaming the people that don’t want to deal with those assholes.

        • @Tetsuo666
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          11 year ago

          I don’t know where I read that for a social network, the actual product is the moderation. If you manage to moderate well enough your social network, it may grow.

          The problem is that for a large community there is no other way than having an army of mods to moderate stuff. And reddit mods are not paid so it ends up attracting some amount of power hungry people. That’s how they are paid, power.

          So I definitely understand why a community would want to stay small. You can moderate a small instance with a tight team. Moderation will also stay more consistent since all mods know each other.