That’s why it’s nice not to use lemmy.world
this post was submitted on 17 Feb 2026
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Turns out the admins and community moderators there lie or just don't care, mild shock.
Laughs in @lemmy.dbzer0.com.
The strength of the fediverse is exactly this: don't like what an instance admin is doing? Move to another instance or create your own.
defederates Feddit
That's a pro in my book considering I had harassment directed my way by a feddit admin.
You say that as if it's a gotcha, not a boon
Ultimately when you criticize censorship you ultimately get a bunch of Freeze peach libertarians who want to do whatever they want and see moderation as something to fear. That's why it's important to be precise and not speak in broad or abstract terms when criticizing censorship.
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I had no idea this was a thing. Interesting. I can see from liability why this is not something they dont want to touch, being a general purpose instance.
I think lemmy/fediverse needs a place where if you try and subscribe to something blocked, you get a post/page explaining why they did the thing. Its going to confuse new users otherwise.
IIRC when it was implemented in the first place, it seemed like lemmy.world had actually been contacted by some stakeholder with a DMCA-style request, even though the community was not actually originating on lemmy.world. Explaining how federation worked to lawyers didn’t matter much and with .world at the time becoming one of the larger and more visible instances that seemed like the best way to avoid the headaches. Initially they defederated with dbzer0 entirely before developing a way to block just the community.
Considering the bullshit spewed by them to justify their ban of pro-Luigi comments, claiming they consulted a lawyer, I doubt this ever happened.
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That’s rich coming from fedi. On pexelfed there’s a guy that takes pictures of people’s faces, cars, license plates, and homes with addresses and nothing can be done about it. I just flat out blocked this ugly looking fucker but he still shows up on my feed. You can’t report him so it dawns on me that there’s also nothing that can be done on Pixelfed or other platforms on fedi about harassment or doxxing.
Okey you can defederate completaly this kind of illegal things.
But for political reasons we shouldn't do that
Wait what? Just random people or does he target certain people? Not that one is better or worse but this is just…. I dunno sounds like an angry person with untreated neurological issues.
I’m sorry if this goes against any rules, i don’t know but on pixelfed they go by iZone and Zf@c.im he’s not doing anything wrong against users but the pics he takes are what a stalker would take.
That's why I run my own instance, dont like others decide what must be censored for me.
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I didn't mean this post would make people talk about whole federation and censorship. Looks like we really need to talk about Federation and Censorship
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