Following the announcement by beehaw admins to defederate from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works, there has been many posts and messages regarding that decisions and what other instances will do.

I personally believe Lemmy/kbin can only thrive if there is a free flow of content between different instances, with instance admins taking a back seat and focusing more on the infrastructure and making sure the technical bugs are smoothened out. Community mods can moderate their communities, and users can block the communities they don’t find appealing (there’s even a toggle in settings to hide every NSFW post from your feed altogether).

We don’t want to create walled gardens, nor do we want to make Lemmy more confusing than it already is for new users. We will not be defederating from any instance if there is even one good community on it that our instance users might find useful. So far we have only blocked lemmygrad.ml, and right now we have no plans to block anyone else.

  •  Otome-chan   ( @Otome-chan@kbin.social ) 
    6•1 year ago

    I see. I like the kbin philosophy of just federating with everyone. lemmygrad stuff doesn’t pop up that often here and from a quick look it didn’t really look like an issue. But yeah I guess you’re right that it’s just fear? or people just wanting to curate/block certain things…

    •  0x4E4F   ( @0x4E4F@lemmy.fmhy.ml ) 
      3•1 year ago

      It’s like my need to see less cat posts. I searched for every cat community there is on Lemmy and just blocked all of them. Problem solved 👍. Some people are just snowflakes and don’t even wanna do that out of fear they might see some tankie posts or something, so the admins just did their dirty work for them 😒.

      I might open up a kbin account as well, this whole defederation thing sucks. I already have like 5 accounts cuz this instance is defederated from that instance and so on 😒.