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PumpkinDrama@reddthat.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I stopped using Lemmy due to instances blocking each other. I wanted to view content from specific instances, but none of the instances between the most popular ones allowed me to see all the content. I had to create multiple accounts, which made navigating between them cumbersome. This experience was more frustrating for me than any issues I’ve encountered on Reddit. I believe users should have more freedom to choose the content they see without having to create their own instance or manage multiple accounts.

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Blaze@dormi.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Don’t lemm.ee and sh.itjust.works have a very low number of defederations?

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- Ashtear@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yep. I’m on lemm.ee and I don’t even think about what content I might be missing.
  
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- QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Imma check those out. Thanks. :D
  
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QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Wow, is that part of the reason why my feed sucks so bad? Seeing the same kinda stuff over and over again? I think I understand both sides of this argument. We’ve got users who are complaining of having their experience restricted with means outside of their control. They feel that perhaps defederation is a heavy-handed approach to this issue when a scapel will do. i.e. blocking and muting.

Then, we have those who advocate for a safe fediverse and view defederation as a means to that end. Or likely, from a more pragmatic perspective, they want to protect their own local instances and communities. I’m sure they’re thinking, “Dislike these restrictions? Too bad, find another instance.” And finding a new instance would solve your issues, for the most part. This is a tough problem I can imagine, and it sure does make for a less streamlined experience.

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- 1984@lemmy.today ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Defederation goes against the spirit of the fediverse but for large instances like Lemmy.world I think it’s the only option. Otherwise they have to have tons of moderators working around the clock.
  
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1984@lemmy.today ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Lemmy.today is federating with 100% of the fediverse and it works fine since it’s a small instance and doesn’t attract attention. It’s one of the reasons I like it so much.

If I want, I can go read what tankies are writing or any other thing that people want to be protected from. I just like to make my own decisions what I should read.

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- PumpkinDrama@reddthat.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Federating communities is a manual process so in smaller instances you don’t see as much content as in larger ones since there aren’t many users subscribing to external communities.
  
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  - bilb@lem.monster ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    On my instance, I follow most of the biggest communities with a “seed account” to fill out the “all” feed. This seems to work pretty well.
    
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  - 1984@lemmy.today ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    It’s enough with one user subscribing to a community to get it replicated to an instance. So there is more content than anyone can read already. :) Probably the top 500 communities are already being brought in. Just a guess, not sure if it’s possible to count them all.
    
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pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I think the best solution to this is a way to migrate an account to another instance, which I’ve heard is in the works.

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