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  • @abhibeckert
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    1 year ago

    Some people might do that. But lemmy.world is a very well run community that has never done anything offensive, and yet it’s still defederated by some of the biggest lemmy instances.

    That proves defederation is for more than just spam/illegal content/harassment. Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but it’s pretty disruptive. Like a strike.

      • @givesomefucks
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        51 year ago

        Yeah, they’re the one that makes you answer 3 vague open end questions and then manually approve it.

        If you don’t write enough, or write something they dont agree with… You dont get denied, it’s just like it’s still pending indefinitely.

        Lemmy.world requires a valid email instead (something beehaw doesn’t).

        There’s no right or wrong way to go about it. Which is the biggest benefit of Lemmy. Somewhere out there, there’s an instance being ran like how you want, if not, just make your own.

        • @coz
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          I’d say that leaving your request pending forever is definitely the wrong way They are trying to hide their rejections

          But the great thing about federated instances is that even if you are wronged, you have options You’re never between a rock and a hard place

          What I plan to do is just create accounts in the server I’m interested in, and link between accounts so people know I’m the same person. It even works as a backup

          There will be instances that will delete your account if you have an account at other instances, however my life experience is that I’m better without the kind of people who does that, so their self-revelation as such an agent is also a plus

          • @T156
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            11 year ago

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        • @T156
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          11 year ago

          If you don’t write enough, or write something they dont agree with… You dont get denied, it’s just like it’s still pending indefinitely.

          That’s a Lemmy issue. It doesn’t show some errors or registration denials for some reason, and just fails silently, pending/loading forever.

          It will also happen if you try to register an account, but the account name already exists. It will get stuck loading, since it doesn’t display or receive any errors.

        • @grepe
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          11 year ago

          But that is exactly the problem with the federated media… there is no one place to find something - there is thousands of places to find thousands of different things. You don’t get that one wonderful resource where you can come and expect that no matter how niche your question or hobby is you can always find someone who can relate or help you… you are left wandering from place to place searching, always wondering if there is the right community for you somewhere or perhaps you should just start a new one.

          • @givesomefucks
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            11 year ago

            But that is exactly the problem with the federated media… there is no one place to find something

            Huh?

            Eventually one community becomes the “main” one.

            Maybe the best one about world news is on one instance, the one for your fav show on another, and the one about your fav band on a third.

            You don’t need to make an account on all three instances.

            There’s a bunch of them now, because people have coalesced around one yet.