shouldve kept the nsfw, ml and hexbear instance seperate when they had the chance.
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db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Sad to hear, had a very inspired name and the admin was very strong with hosting tech. Unfortunately however a generic instance with lax federation rules and no solid ideology, is a recipe for burning out your admins.
Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 days ago
dditty@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Ironically, that lemm.ee still federated with .ml, hexbear, and lemmygrad was one of the primary factors for me deciding to move my account there from lemmy.world. I want to be a part of an instance that federated with those communities and then I can just block individual communities and accounts on a case-by-case basis from my account.
Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 days ago
ml and hexbear were getting problematic for me so i blocked them. and the users there were infesting other posts with thier rants.
Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah I agree, that model just isn’t sustainable. Moderation is one of the most challenging aspects of running a Lemmy instance, and deciding to never defederate because of “free speech” and “user choice” just makes the job that much worse. It feels almost inevitable that instances like this will ultimately succumb to this type of burnout.
Really I feel like we should stop talking about “defederation” as an abstract concept without context or reason since it makes it seem like defederation happens for no reason. Which is almost never the case. We don’t talk about other forms of moderation that way, and if someone did it would be clear they’re one of those free speech trolls, so why do we so casually talk about defederation this way? Seriously, defederation, like any other moderation is 100% necessary, because humans are evil pieces of shit. Not all of them, but many are. That’s why we ban people, that’s why we defederate the most rotten places in the fediverse. Saying “just block users” is counterproductive. You know what Lemmy would look like if that’s all we offered here? Probably a more extreme version of 4chan, since those are the people that dominate when moderation isn’t enforced.
Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Agreed