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.
Half of them being war criminals is maybe undershooting it. Probably depends how broadly you apply the term “leadership”.
But also can we talk about defederating from lemmy.ca. you wanna talk about historical and ongoing crimes, take a look at the canadian state. Genocide 150 years and going strong. No free acess to govt documents; most stuff done in secret; now they are moving to control the press via funding. Canadian mining companiee devestate communities around the world.
I assume all these totally not red-baiting people all worried about china are also just as worried about any .ca instance? Riiiggt??
(Jk about lemmy.ca to highlight how standards are applied to some but not to all.)