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I’m from kbin, here’s my perspective.
Stay defederated from lemmy.world. The admins are at the very least sympathetic towards fascists being on their instance as long as they’re “polite.”
Shit just works is mostly fine, but world is a shithole and honestly I wish everyone would defederate them to force them to be broken up or isolated.
Honestly I would suggest defederatibf from lemm.ee as well. I have noticed a ton of fascists originating from there.
Not sure what you mean by ton of fascists originating from lemm.ee, but please be sure to report users if you notice something weird, rather than trying to create random defederation in the fediverse.
I agree. I haven't noticed anything from lemm.ee in my casual browsing.
Example?
https://kbin.social/m/politics@lemmy.world/t/366019/-/comment/1806367
I love how your example is just you linking to your own comment.
FYI that link doesn't work for us beehaw folks - the link you used is specifically for kbin users to view lemmy.world.
He's linking to his own comment. There is no actual example.
It’s a comment I’d made previously that covers the same topic. Sorry for not annotating my life enough for your convenience
The comment would be more useful if you linked to the threads you reference in it.
How does that cover it though? There's no further evidence in that comment either. Are we supposed to just take your word for it?
Considering the last weird argument I somehow stumbled into on lemmy.world, I completely agree. Things go off the rails far too fast over there.
Defederation should only ever be used as a last resort. Every instance will have some amount of problematic users, or even users you simply don't agree with.
If we'd all defederate from one another because some users on each instance are out of line, the Fediverse would die out quickly.
I agree, this is kinda hurting the fediverse.
I came here because I happened to see a post on lemmynsfw (coming from lemmy.world through federation) about Threads, and I was looking to reply from beehaw (because replying with a lemmynsfw account gives a certain "flair" of course) so I was looking for that post here. But I couldn't find it anywhere. Then I started looking into the reason here. Then I found this post which explained it.
But I think it's important to realise that this way the fediverse will stay very niche and fragmented. It would be better to let the users have a choice who they want to see. And defederate only in very heavy situations (for example, nobody would expect beehaw to federate with gab.com because they support actual total nazis). But blocking lemmy.world as one of the biggest instances is... strange.
The thing is, I came here as a new user because spez makes reddit so inhospitable with his dick moves. So I went to https://join-lemmy.org/ and found beehaw. (well in fact I went to lemmy.ml first but didn't like the attitude there). But join-lemmy doesn't describe this whole complex fabric of defederation, it appears as if I could see the whole fediverse from beehaw. Because lemmy.world is a really major instance this is a little bit disingenous. For a new user like me (and a very technical one) this is really hard to grasp. And will lead to users being put off.
I think this whole fragmentation thing is a much bigger threat to the fediverse than Threads is to be honest.
I saw the same on Mastodon, with a lot of German sites instantly blocking federation as soon as another instance doesn't copy exactly the same set of rules word for word (so no incidents are even necessary). In my opinion this hurts the fediverse a lot. As a user I don't want to maintain accounts everywhere, the whole point of ActivityPub was not having to do that.
And don't forget that not all communities on lemmy.world might necessarily bad. Reddit itself is full of toxic communities like the old the_donald (now banned of course). But also really good ones. The same is true for lemmy.world. By by defederating we're blocking the chance of even seeing them.
thank you for your take! being here on beehaw (and being relatively new to lemmy in general), i have not had a ton of interactions with either of these instances. This came up for me because there are well-populated communities in those spaces that i want to subscribe to. That said, if World is that rife with fascists, then it is obviously not worth the gain in communities.
But it's not.