This still baffles me, but I guess it's good for federation?

I want to just block all the far right instances like .world blahaj.zone and sh.itjust.works from even showing up at all

World and shit just works are far right?

Also you can just create your own instance and defederate from whatever

But then I would also be defederated from most instances. What should be a feature is to defederate at a per user level. And yes, they are

Why would you be de-federated from most instances?

And could you show how those 3 instances are far-right? Seriously asking here.

I took would liberalism to disappear from my feeds.

Yeah, liberal far-right instances like I said above

Woah, sh.itjust.works is far right? How exactly? Asking because I have an account there and this is news to me

Because it seems many conservative trolls come from there

And I want to block the extreme extreme left instances but here we are…

But freedumb and freeze peach amirite?

“extreme”

Lol…

Block whatever you want dude… You don’t need to preach about it

Yeah, freedom sucks and being able to say what you want is bad. All hail the authority.

Edit: there really are many communists on lemmy.

those are far right?

Ia there a list somewhere of insurances that do NOT blck piracy?

Also just a quick yes or no question: does lemmy.ml block piracy?

Hot take: .world and others banning/blocking /c/ is better for the fediverse and for piracy. It means less eyes on piracy discussions and incentivizes users to spread out to other instances instead of just all using .world.

Fantastic take. Imagine a conglomerate of smaller instances that largely make no waves and allow 70% of the community to just see what they want. Dare to dream.

i feel like blocking of instances leads to worse echo chambers than subreddits themselves. We gonna have bubbles of federation networks that don’t federate with each other. E.g. lefties, righties, “dark web” illegal shit, kinky shit, and instances that federate with all of them will be blocked by other instances because “use my blacklist or get defederated”. This is gonna lead to hell for users having to create fifty accounts for each bubble. Aint nobody got time for that.

i wish it remained a user’s option to block/unblock content they don’t/do want to see. Each instance could provide their “recommended” default list of enabled instances, and user can go and enable others, like how NSFW toggle works. Maybe group instances into categories with tags or something, like “porn”, “memes”, “tankies”, “nazis”, “warez”, etc

We’re gonna need a Lemmy client that can log into multiple accounts at the same time and display a combined feed of allof those accounts…

Liftoff is fantastic for that

Liftoff has been doing that for A while

Thanks for the rec, I had no idea

The primary purpose of the defederation mechanism is not to block content from readers, it’s to prevent brigades. A big problem on Reddit is vote manipulation (not to mention shit stirrers showing up uninvited). On Reddit some mods would just ban everyone who ever posted in a subreddit (like T_D), defederation is essentially the same thing.

Either way you call it, it’s someone else deciding for me

Live in someone’s house, then follow their rules. Otherwise buy your own house or find another house.

That’s what I associate lemmy instances with. Anyways I’m glad that we are free to choose where we maintain our accounts. Unlike reddit wher we cannot even move in order to change the environment, cause it’s all under one management.

No it isn’t. You’ve got the whole Fediverse to choose from. That’s the whole fucking point.

If you want every single decision to go your way, run your own instance. Otherwise, quit moaning and find an instance that suits you.

Most people will not put their time and energy into running an instance which is destined to become a fascist playground with policies like those. You might not like it but in this real world that we are all forced to live in, that is what those policies lead to.

You can discuss and promote piracy, but lemmy.world is the biggest instance so hosting links up pirated content will get them shut down. The post is 100% right, just make multiple accounts. You want the illegal stuff distributed. What’s great about Lemmy is you can still have other accounts on those networks.

Good. Piracy is illegal and immoral.

Copyright infringement is absolutely the moral thing to do in quite a lot of cases. For example, for the preservation of cultural works. Corporations aren’t exactly spending their money on proper archives and the people to curate them. Quite the opposite! For example, if some or all of the lawsuits against sites like archive.org are successful then the result could be a mass erasure of cultural works on the scale of the burning of the Library of Alexandria.

But archiving has nothing to do with copyright.

Yes it absolutely does.

This is such an insane thing to say, I feel like you can’t possibly understand what those words mean.

But I want to make sleazy companies suffer…

Become a film director or major video game developer and have your content ruthlessly stolen then.

I can’t, can’t afford to go to college or watch films or read plays to become a better director, programmer, writer. Maybe I’m unemployed too :( fuck me, right?