Comment on Why do .ml users get a bad rep?
RobotToaster@mander.xyz 2 weeks agoIf you’re on an instance that is widely defederated
Or one that widely defederates.
I believe mander is the only instance that has a policy of only defederating illegal content.
In contrast .world has a huge de-federation list.
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I took a look at those stats a while back, and the defederation procedure totally goes both ways.
As far as I can tell, bigger instances have bumped into issues that were resolved through defederation. Smaller instances haven’t faced those kinds of problems, so they haven’t defederated with any instances yet.
If all the big instances have defederated your instance, that’s clear sign that there might be something wrong with that place. If your instance has defederated from a bunch of other instances, take a look at the size of that instance before drawing conclusions. For example lemmy.world is a special case and a clear outlier.
Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Why does Lemmy.world defederate so much?
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
To maintain an overton window firmly within liberalism. Pre-emptively defederating hexbear “as a last resort” gave the game away.
GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If this was actually the case, they would’ve been long defederated from ml. That is yet to happen as of now
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Haven’t asked the admins, but here’s my guess.
Being the most well known instance means that you get a lot of traffic. Let’s say that 1% of the people using your instance are annoying morons. In a smaller instance that 1% translates to maybe one ban a month or whatever. In a bigger place, it becomes a constant onslaught stupid idiot bullshit nobody has the time or energy to deal with. Either you get a bunch of admins and mods to deal with that nonsense or you start banning users more aggressively.
However, some part of that drama is public on https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/lemmy.world. Have a look. Just scroll down to censures given and read the reasons why lemmy.world has defederated from so many instances.