I agree, it’s a useful feature for certain people. I’m just not a big fan of site admins making the decision for you. It should only be used as a last resort IMO or to protect yourself against illegal content, CP for example. Normalizing defederation between instances can be abused by a small amount of bad faith actors. If you as a person don’t like a certain culture on an instance or community, just block it yourself.
No one is obligated to do anything. The admins run the site and they can moderate how they feel. As a user, I can join their site or another one if I choose to.
My opinion of defederating is that it should only be used as a last resort. Taking a liberal approach to defederation means that a small amount of bad faith actors can completely shut down an instance and make it a pariah on the fediverse.
It doesn’t, except for the ones who like to browse local. And the .world admins have quite a few blocked instances. They seem to be a bit too liberal in defederating to my tastes. I feel as if it runs against the concept of federation itself.
.world is the instance where most new users default to so and it has the highest user base and that includes a lot of trolls or just bad faith actors. Also, a lot of .world is based from reddit users who left and they brought that kind of mindset along. Some people don’t like that either.
I did not know that .world was made by a Dutch person. Thanks for teaching me something new.
.world seems to have been the default instance people went to when they left reddit. It’s more or less than mentality imported into Lemmy. This led to the fact that creating a US specific instance is not necessary. .world fills that niche enough.
.world is more or less an American instance in all but name.
Opinion of what exactly?
Ah that’s my bad. My point still stands though. It’s not like he was able to convince everyone to become Protestant.
No pope has ever had the power to change everyone’s mind with a single word or speech. That’s never been a thing.
MLK definitely did not change everyone’s opinion. A lot of people? Sure. Everyone? Absolutely not.
Was there ever a time that this was the case?
Just signed up about 2 minutes ago and havent gotten my email. I’m a patient man, but even I have my limits.
Interested to give it a shot though. Hopefully it gets sorted out soon.
If it’s widespread, there will likely be some kind of strong smell that is not pleasant.
Are there signs of water damage anywhere in the house? Paint on the wall or ceiling that looks like it got wet at one point? That might be a good place to look for if it did happen.
Do you happen to know any professional contractors personally? Painters or handymen maybe? They’ve likely seen it before and have learned to spot the telltale signs.
Pretty sure that’s what forestation is all about.
Sorry I thought your comment was a reply to a different comment of mine, which is why I deleted it. For the record, no disagreements with what you say.
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Oh, now I see. Thank you for clarifying.
I think the federated social media that is coming now is a great thing. It’s fantastic. It’s back to the old architecture, partially. But, I think it has unintentionally imitated some of the design patterns that exist on the current “they” internet. Among them:
You don’t control your experience. That is designed and curated for you by “they.” You can configure it, but you have to turn in a formal request if you want to make changes outside the parameters, and since you’re requesting someone spend significant effort on you who doesn’t know you from a can of paint, the answer is probably no.
Could you clarify what you mean by this? I assume when you say “they” on the Internet you talk about the Internet’s commercialization and commodification by companies. In what way is the Fediverse curated for you by “they”? Is it the news and other external links people post?
Lol this guy was awesome.
There’s no need to comment on someone’s color. Grey lives matter too.