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[email protected] has also been blocked from lemmy.world.

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Lemmy.world has released an official response.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Fucking Lemmy.world is hot garbage. They're down every day and are constantly defederating with any instance that doesn't fit their narrow, sanitized world views. It's also one of the most recommended Lemmy's with more new users going there than anywhere else. I think it incredibly damaging in the long run to have 50% of active users on this platform to be centralized on one domain. Especially if this domain makes as many boneheaded decisions as lemmy.world

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think it incredibly damaging in the long run to have 50% of active users on this platform to be centralized on one domain.

I agree, but 50% is still better than 100%. I definitely appreciate that I'm reading about this while being totally unaffected personally rather than just disappearing entirely like what happens with a banned subreddit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

We badly need Lemmy clients that can merge instances even if they're defederated, as well as the other way around, filter out entire instances even if your instance won't defederate from them. Letting instance owners dictate what you can or cannot see is not the way.

There are clients that will do the former (eg. Liftoff) but I'm not aware of any that will do the latter. I don't understand why, it can't be that hard to filter users and communities by instance.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I wanna say connect could do it for a while now. It'll certainly come to many clients

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Yep, I agree. Yet another reason I just spun up my own instance and use that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Let the garbage go there

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

100% spot on. I got called all sorts of names for pointing this out, but maybe my own fault for pointing it out on one of their posts! 😅

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think lemmy.world gather the kind of redditors that like sanitized world views, the power of decentralization makes us choose an instance without those hot garbaje takes as lemmy.world.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A lot of people register there initially to get their feet wet and move on to another instance later for these reasons. At least we have subscriptions/blocks transferring tools now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I did it the moment they decided not to defederate from Meta. I don't like admins who can't take decisive actions to protect their users (and apparently seem to bend their knees to any big corpo out there)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

They should have shut down registrations a long time before they gained such a majority of users.

They stand behind the lie that "if we didn't let people in, they wouldn't know where to go"... as if it's so hard to create a new registration page that re-routes people to other instances.

I'll never understand the selfishness of people like that. They know they're actively hurting all of lemmy, but they want to keep all the users to themselves. This thing only works if it's a collection of smaller instances.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

@tron @Madbrad200 >Fucking Lemmy.world is hot garbage. They’re down every day and are constantly defederating with any instance that doesn’t fit their narrow, sanitized world views.

welcome to the fedi, first day here? :guraKekw: