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[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I don't understand the concern over which instance you are on. We're all interacting with people on different instances, so what would even change?

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

If you are banned you loss all the communites you follow you have to start from zero

[–] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Because a lot of people and instances block World entirely

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Well, I was in a thread I enjoyed the other day with people I liked, and the majority of them said they block .world because the users are horrible. They were from a lot of different instances and I wasn't sure which ones were good from just quickly looking, and I couldn't ask them afaik because they have the entire instance blocked and the users from that instance (ie me), so I made this thread. So perhaps those who do it are just blissfully happy elsewhere and you aren't aware of it.

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 2 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah people may choose as individuals to block it, but it's not instance-level blocked by most instances - that's what I mean.

[–] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

Okay, then I misunderstood what people were saying, or perhaps they just meant they aren't federate with it? But then I wouldnt have seen their comments? Not sure, probably missing something or just misunderstood

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 4 points 20 hours ago

They mean that a lot of users might go into their settings to block lemmy.world for themselves.