That’s the thing though, it’s the luck of the draw and you might be unlucky and sign up to a bad instance and then it’s too late, first impression has been made and the user just goes back to Reddit.
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loaf@sh.itjust.works 1 week agoAh, I see what you’re saying. Under normal circumstances, I would suggest to new users to signup on the “flagship instance”, but in Lemmy’s case… nah.
To be perfectly honest, I’m not certain what content I’m not seeing because, well, I haven’t seen it 😅. Some instances seem to do a good job of only blocking content from notoriously bad sources.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
AFAIK, you’re able to see pretty much everything on your instance, but Beehaw did defederate from your instance, so think you can see their posts, but they can’t see yours.