Hopefully this will drive people to switch to another instance, and the issue you mentions will be less present.
Comment on Lemmy.world seems to have banned the largest piracy community on Lemmy.
Grimy@lemmy.world 9 months agoThe problem with this is that it isn’t really decentralized equally. Lemmy.world has most of the users and getting federated from them is essentially a death sentence.
I think it’s a good idea to make new accounts on other instances, I plan to buy without a proper amount of people, lemmy.world is working the same way reddit did.
Blaze@dormi.zone 9 months ago
VinesNFluff@pawb.social 9 months ago
Self-resolving issue here. If people hop away from LW due to LW making decisions they don’t like, LW will cease being the one-go-to-place for stuff.
Also also – Defederation is a far more nuanced thing than just “is block”. There is more than one tool that can be used by an ActivityPub admin.
If LW defederates from your home instance – You can still manually follow communities that are in LW AND interact with them (unless the admins go out of their way to ALSO block USERS from your home instance), as “defederated from the instance” just removes it from the global timeline.
What happened here, though, wasn’t defederation, it was a block, and a block on two specific communities, which brings me to: LW’s block on the piracy communities from dbzer0 doesn’t stop LW users from interacting with dbzer0 as a whole. Or vice-versa.