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I mean the lawsuit thing is laughable and 100% not possible. I seriously think it weakens your statements. Why? Genuine question. I’m not a lawyer or have any legal training, but what would stop the Lemmy devs sue someone for distorting their statements with the purpose of damaging their reputation and making them lose income, if they wanted to? I don’t believe they’re the type that would do that, but I’m not aware of anything that would stop it. I’m not saying something that would stop them from doing that doesn’t exist, just that I’m not aware of it.

Especially given they are so long to begin with. Best to be as concise as possible (and yeas, I know, as does anyone who knows me in this media, im being a huge hypocrite with that statement). Hey, I agree with that. I tend to be pretty wordy in everything. I wish I was more concise too.

Regarding your paragraph on defederation, I’m glad that we agree on another thing. I don’t know if you know, but Lemmy allows a user to block at pretty much every level (user, community, or entire instances). I understand that the blocking is not 100% perfect, but I don’t know the details. I can see that bidirectional blocks would help. I would expect that the blocks as they are go a long way in improving user experience here though. My community and instance blocks definitely improve mine because it helps me not see stuff I don’t want to see. I can also understand that keyword filters and URL filters would also improve the experience, so I hope that they add both eventually. I’ve heard that Piefed may have more features in that regard.

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HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
yeah im on piefed now mostly due to features like that. pretty much everything is there except the bidirectional and the devs are pretty active and seem to talk regularly about improvements so things have come to it that did not occur to me but im estatic about. just recently it was a setting to not have things in your feed that you already read which I am just loving. I pretty much don’t have to read looking at new now because everythig I read goes away and if there is no new stuff then old stuff will show. which I really like.

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- Cricket@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  That’s good to know. I haven’t tried piefed yet. I hesitate for a couple of reasons (technical and political, although neither is a super-strong reason). I’m pretty sure that the feature to hide posts you’ve read has been on Lemmy for a long time too, although I haven’t used it myself. I torture myself by seeing the same posts over and over and over again. I should really try that feature. :)
  
  By the way, I just now noticed that my last reply to you had messed up formatting that was merging my responses with your quotes, so I’ve edited it to fix it.
  
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  - HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    no worries. I have had auto formatting messing up my things and I was not even gracious enough to fix it for the people.
    
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    Cricket@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Thanks.
    
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Skavau@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Why? Genuine question. I’m not a lawyer or have any legal training, but what would stop the Lemmy devs sue someone for distorting their statements with the purpose of damaging their reputation and making them lose income, if they wanted to? I don’t believe they’re the type that would do that, but I’m not aware of anything that would stop it. I’m not saying something that would stop them from doing that doesn’t exist, just that I’m not aware of it.

Because the entire fediverse has a net active user pool of 40k users. Moreover, the lemmy devs have no idea who anyone who might be diaparaging their instance is. They could literally be anywhere in the world. Do you genuinely think its worth their time at all?

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- Cricket@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  No, I don’t think it would be worth their time and I also don’t think that they’re the types who would be inclined to resort to that in the first place. My point is that those posts expose the poster and the instance admins to action, if someone were litigious and lived in a litigious society that facilitated this.
  
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  - Skavau@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    It would also help if they actually had a name even if they were rather than just some user account from who-knows-where.
    
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    Cricket@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Like I mentioned, I’m not a lawyer and have no legal training, but it seems to me that someone could legally force an instance to at a minimum provide IP logs, email addresses, etc.
    
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