I’m just curious to find an instance that has the same hands-off approach to federation that allows me to choose what I see/block. Too many instance admins defederate on their own gumption, and while I’m sure there are reasons, I’d rather make the choice myself via blocking. I just found out about all this yesterday, and now it’s homework time.
Too many instance admins defederate on their own gumption
Hmm, that’s disappointing to hear. That kind of thing should happen pretty rarely, based on my understanding of good policy, transparency, and health of the Lemmysphere.
Any examples, by chance? And backstory about possible ‘feuds?’
Tangent: there’s a “hidden” sub-URL on Lemmy instances where you can examine who they both link to and block (defederate), add /instances after any site; e.g. https://lemm.ee/instances
I’ve seen a number of folks mentioning or suggesting lemmy.zip (the whole .zip TLD gives me the willies, just feels wrong in my old bones) - I know nothing about them, but can examine their federation and it seems to be very open like lemm.ee is: https://lemmy.zip/instances (their sidebar seems to say they want gamers and techs but idk)
I just remember it being a thing a while back between World, Hexbear, ML, ExplodingHeads, etc where admins had a clash of views and decided to just sever federation. Like I get that some instances are run be wackos and some people don’t want to see certain certain content, but I’d rather make that choice myself as a user and block what I don’t want to see, as opposed to my instance admin making that decision for everyone. One thing I always appreciated about EE was that they defederated from spam and unsavory (ie CP) instances, but they left the majority of it to the user. I’m just not a fan of blanket bans, even if I agree with it.
I mean… Hexbear is just… yikes. What a complete, total bag of extremist a-holes, and why in the world would any other instance entertain their BS, y’know?
“World” at least tries to carry the brunt of the server and user-load, whether that’s wise or not. But we can certainly admire that, amirite?
“ML” is arguably ‘tankie’ in nature, altho personally the main dev has always treated me well, and I really can’t say anything bad about those guys.
Absolutely, and I’ve had a lot of the more insane and extreme content block for a long time. That said, I don’t agree with admins making executive decisions on what users see and don’t see. In a similar vein, i stance admins are free to govern their servers as they please, which is why I’m bummed EE is going down, and why I’d like to find an instance that has a similar stand on federation.
I’m just curious to find an instance that has the same hands-off approach to federation that allows me to choose what I see/block. Too many instance admins defederate on their own gumption, and while I’m sure there are reasons, I’d rather make the choice myself via blocking. I just found out about all this yesterday, and now it’s homework time.
Hmm, that’s disappointing to hear. That kind of thing should happen pretty rarely, based on my understanding of good policy, transparency, and health of the Lemmysphere.
Any examples, by chance? And backstory about possible ‘feuds?’
Tangent: there’s a “hidden” sub-URL on Lemmy instances where you can examine who they both link to and block (defederate), add
/instancesafter any site; e.g. https://lemm.ee/instancesI’ve seen a number of folks mentioning or suggesting lemmy.zip (the whole
.zipTLD gives me the willies, just feels wrong in my old bones) - I know nothing about them, but can examine their federation and it seems to be very open like lemm.ee is: https://lemmy.zip/instances (their sidebar seems to say they want gamers and techs but idk)I just remember it being a thing a while back between World, Hexbear, ML, ExplodingHeads, etc where admins had a clash of views and decided to just sever federation. Like I get that some instances are run be wackos and some people don’t want to see certain certain content, but I’d rather make that choice myself as a user and block what I don’t want to see, as opposed to my instance admin making that decision for everyone. One thing I always appreciated about EE was that they defederated from spam and unsavory (ie CP) instances, but they left the majority of it to the user. I’m just not a fan of blanket bans, even if I agree with it.
I mean… Hexbear is just… yikes. What a complete, total bag of extremist a-holes, and why in the world would any other instance entertain their BS, y’know?
“World” at least tries to carry the brunt of the server and user-load, whether that’s wise or not. But we can certainly admire that, amirite?
“ML” is arguably ‘tankie’ in nature, altho personally the main dev has always treated me well, and I really can’t say anything bad about those guys.
I don’t have the slightest clue what that is…
Absolutely, and I’ve had a lot of the more insane and extreme content block for a long time. That said, I don’t agree with admins making executive decisions on what users see and don’t see. In a similar vein, i stance admins are free to govern their servers as they please, which is why I’m bummed EE is going down, and why I’d like to find an instance that has a similar stand on federation.