That is the beauty of the Fediverse. If you don’t like how an instance is run, you can easily switch to another instance in Lemmy 0.19. We need to think of Lemmy instances as countries with their own laws, culture, and policies. So in my opinion, if you don’t like how an instance is run, you can easily switch to another instance.
pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Except you can’t, because this is not a technical problem, it’s a political problem everybody is deliberately ignoring because they know it is real and they know of the extremely negative implications of them.
The vast majority of Lemmy traffic is from .world. No matter what instance you’re on, most activities happen from .world and .world content floods the feeds of all the others.
.world insists on federating with Meta.
Therefore NO instance is safe, because you’ll always be forced to deal with it indirectly.
That is the insidiousness of .world I tried to warn you all about.
I fucking told you all .world was monopolizing Lemmy and that it was doing it in a way that it implemented the same kind of soft censorship, favoritism and authoritarianism Reddit imposed on its users, and it was herding everyone toward it in the same way old social media did to users in the 10’s.
And did a single one of you listen to me? Noooooo. You were too busy getting mad that your investment in a new website was being deconstructed and that you were being burdened with the mental labor of investing yourselves somewhere else.
This is happening 100% because you are all the most spoiled, entitled, selfish, lazy dumbasses history has ever seen, and you deserve every ounce of suffering Meta is going to impose on you and the fediverse as a result.
You’ve been warned
mac@programming.dev 5 months ago
Instances that defederate with threads wont see content from threads even on other instances that may federate with them.
As an example here lemmy.ml federates with hexbear and world but hexbear and world dont federate with each other. On lemmy.ml threads world users cant see any comments made from people on hexbear and vice versa
A post in the view of .world: lemmy.world/post/9466410 (282 comments) The same post in the view of hexbear: hexbear.net/post/1304992 (76 comments) The same post in the view of lemmy.ml: lemmy.ml/post/9207671 (306 comments)
So they wont have to deal with them indirectly
pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The fact that this guy’s only rebuttal is “well, just go to tankie instances” is all you need to know.
mac@programming.dev 5 months ago
Didnt say to go anywhere, just said that people on .world cant see content from hexbear on lemmy.ml posts even though it federates with hexbear shown by those comment counts above. (hexbear used since its the best example of a large blocked instance that can showcase this well)
Same logic would apply to .world federating with threads. People on lemmy.dbzer0 for example wont see content from threads on .world even if .world federates with threads
Just wanted to put a counterpoint to you saying people would need to deal with it indirectly in this paragraph below which isnt true proven by the above. You dont need to strawman it by making it a different point