I’m all for every admin deciding what’s best to de-federate from their server, but I really dislike that people are trying to influence other servers through shaming them for not de federating from the same servers as them.
That’s the whole point of the fediverse so that I can decide myself who I want to engage with and who not, if every server has de federated from the same list of other servers what’s the point of the fediverse?
Differences in instance-level topical focus and moderation philosophy, for one. Also physical location and “vibe”.
There are a certain set of bigoted and/or extremist instances that I would judge an instance for not defederating from. There’s a reason I’ve stuck with .world even through some turbulence. Some heinous shit shouldn’t be tolerated by anyone.
There’s a reason I’ve stuck with .world even through some turbulence. Some heinous shit shouldn’t be tolerated by anyone.
At least for me, during the Reddit migration when I was looking through instances to pick from, my main concern was not the fact that instances were a thing unlike others (I was already familiar with the fediverse from Mastodon) but none of them looked like they had strict enough moderation. Aside from this one (which, wouldn’t you know it, are operated by admins that also operate a microblogging fedi instance) and Beehaw. And Beehaw was having tech issues wrt registration applications.
Most instances out there seem to just be an attempt to be “the next Reddit” (including .world) but that’s not sustainable in the long term. That’s how you get the bare minimum “moderation” that’s on mastodon.social, .online, universeodon and co. At least now that the hype has died down smaller instances that want to be communities on their own right are getting built, which is the direction Lemmy in general should move towards.
I’m all for every admin deciding what’s best to de-federate from their server, but I really dislike that people are trying to influence other servers through shaming them for not de federating from the same servers as them.
That’s the whole point of the fediverse so that I can decide myself who I want to engage with and who not, if every server has de federated from the same list of other servers what’s the point of the fediverse?
Differences in instance-level topical focus and moderation philosophy, for one. Also physical location and “vibe”.
There are a certain set of bigoted and/or extremist instances that I would judge an instance for not defederating from. There’s a reason I’ve stuck with .world even through some turbulence. Some heinous shit shouldn’t be tolerated by anyone.
At least for me, during the Reddit migration when I was looking through instances to pick from, my main concern was not the fact that instances were a thing unlike others (I was already familiar with the fediverse from Mastodon) but none of them looked like they had strict enough moderation. Aside from this one (which, wouldn’t you know it, are operated by admins that also operate a microblogging fedi instance) and Beehaw. And Beehaw was having tech issues wrt registration applications.
Most instances out there seem to just be an attempt to be “the next Reddit” (including .world) but that’s not sustainable in the long term. That’s how you get the bare minimum “moderation” that’s on mastodon.social, .online, universeodon and co. At least now that the hype has died down smaller instances that want to be communities on their own right are getting built, which is the direction Lemmy in general should move towards.