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Just an fyi, defederation doesn't mean you as a user can't see any content from a given instance or vice versa. It's more like from the time of defederation, users on the other Lemmy can't be seen commenting or posting on your Lemmy. I believe there are other consequences too, but it's not as straightforward as a ban.
Defederation is a feature, not a bug. Lemmy was designed with the idea that instances could be more specific in thier content, so for your lemmy to defederate from a Ukraine war footage instance might not be a condemnation, so much as a curation decision.
Think of it like, an instance has the potential to be either a reddit alternative or a collection of related subreddits.
Or in this case, it is an ego driven crybaby fest because someone got jealous other instances got big.
https://beehaw.org/post/567170?scrollToComments=true
C'mon the thread is pretty clear and detailed as are the admin's responses in the thread explaining what happened, why it happened, why they unplugged, and why they wish they didnt have to.
It's not a complete ban, but it does mean that you'll stop updating with new posts and comments. Users from elsewhere won't see any new content on their copy of a beehaw post, and you won't see any new content from a Defederated instance.
yeah, I think beehaw is in the right to decide this part of feature and it's up to the server admins. User can choose how they want to respond to that as well and I've seen different reaction as well.
If anyone wants to see just how hard it is to maintain lemmy in current state, just hop over to "All" and set the sorting to "New". For the record, during the past couple days, I already blocked 14 bot accounts and 9 community that used bots. I had to because other wise I can't discovery communities I might have interested in when browsing "All". And that's also after some work that was put in by the lemmy.ca admin.
And, if you don't want all the drama, you can always spin up your instance or join a less populated server.
That's what I did. I get to federate or defederate with whatever instances I want, and as long as I'm not a dickhead, no one will defederate me.
How do you block instances yourself? I had anime bestiality porn popping up on "All" earlier, and would like to not have that as part of my normal browsing experience.
You can't block instance as a user, but you can either block the spam box account, or visit the instance and list all their current communities and then add all of them to your block list.
This is one of the user end feature that really should exist.(it's on the github issue list already.)