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[–] tymon@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

the whole de-federating thing is seriously turning me off to the whole concept of lemmy, it's like little dictators with their sceptres cutting off entire communities from each other. it's a major flaw and I hope it gets addressed as lemmy/fediverse evolves, or else it's not going to work

[–] Aninjanameddaryll@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Eh, if it were easier to block an instance as a user, I'd be 100% with you instead of 95%.

There are instances that are batshit crazy. Since blocking an instance as a user just ain't possible yet, I can see why defederation before trouble gets going is useful. Once the nasty side of the internet gets snowballing, it's much harder to manage.

Troll, or serious extremist, some things are just cancerous.

[–] tymon@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

This is a good point

[–] SamC@lemmy.nz -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

it’s a major flaw and I hope it gets addressed as lemmy/fediverse evolves, or else it’s not going to work

Defederation is an important tool for admins (e.g. if a server full of nazis appears, we want it to be defederated immediately).

Hopefully admins realise over time it's stupid to defederate over trivial stuff, and it causes users to revolt and possibly a decline in your server's activity.

Also, make sure you complain to your admin if they do this, or just leave and go to a new server.