Comment on How is content like this banned on .ml for being "political"?

• belluck@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I don’t think you quite understand how the Fediverse works.

  Lemmy has no control over the instances. It only provides the format and connects the instances with each other. That is the „fed“-part. Federation. A central authority controlling how each instance moderates itself would defeat the point.

  If you don’t like an instance, block it and move on. Nobody except the person who runs the server can do anything to change how they run it.

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  • kingofras@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Ok, perhaps I don’t. Can you explain what people mean when they call for “defederating from” an instance then?

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    • tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      If an instance decides to not federate with another one they don’t see each other anymore. You can’t subscribe to their communities and vice versa, you don’t see their users posts in third instance communities. From your perspective it stops existing.

      It’s sometimes necessary e.g. if an instance doesn’t do moderation by itself and hoards of trolls are coming from one instance spamming in many communities so you don’t have to ban each of their trolls. It can also be a tool if moderation goals differ too strongly from each other, and some instances have decided to defederate from lemmy.ml and more vocal tankie instances like lemmygrad and hexbear.

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      • kingofras@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Ok thanks. I’m a little confused by what that means for voting. Is it possible that anti authoritarian posts or comments still get downvote- brigaded by an instance that is technically defederated from the instance of the OP?

        So let’s say instance A and B are defederated from each other, but both are with instance C. User from A posts something on C and every B user still gets to downvote everything to oblivion right?

        So .ml is effectively r/TheDonald and we can’t do much against brigading?

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• remon@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  You can block the instance if you don’t like it.

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• tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Because they made this thing and Fediverse is per se open. If you question whether they belong, I wonder why you are posting on .ml?

  You didn’t post which community you posted that into so it’s a but hard to evaluate how legitimate the removal is.

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• Gigasser@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Which community on the .ml instance did you post this on?

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