This is in regard to Lemmy.world blocking piracy communities from other instances. This post is not about whether you agree with the decision. It's about how the admins informed their users.

A week ago Lemmy.world announced their Discord server. This wasn't very well received (about 25% downvotes, which is rather bad compared to other announcements). The comments on that post were turned off, presumably to avoid backlash.

Before that, announcements about the instance used to be posted to !lemmyworld@lemmy.world. This time, the information was posted on the Discord server instead.

I don't agree with this. Having to use a proprietary platform to participate in an open-source one goes against the very purpose for me, especially when the new solution isn't really an improvement (as before the information about the platform was closer to it).

Edit: Corrected the announcements community name.

Update: Lemmy.world finally released an announcement and promised they would inform about similar actions and gather feedback in advance in future.

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[–] vlad76@lemmy.sdf.org 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The moment I learned about defederation, I made an account on an instance that didn't do that.

Here's a website you can use to check what your instance is blocking.

https://fba.ryona.agency/

[–] grte@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Alternatively if you scroll to the bottom page of any individual lemmy instance there should be a link called Instances which will take you to a page of all the instances yours is federated and defederated with.

[–] vlad76@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago

Oh neat I didn't know that.

[–] ziggurism@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

can you recommend a good instance with a no defederation policy?

[–] vlad76@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago

I don't know if it's their policy, but it's against the spirit of the organization. This is where I'm at: lemmy.sdf.org

I actually saw it on this list: https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances You can look at their list and find instances that show 0,0 for BI,BB (blocked instances, blocked by).