Comment on The Karen of Lemmy
gullible@fedia.io 3 months agoIt really, really depends on the instance’s users. So long as they’re tolerable, there’s rarely a reason to defederate. If you host mostly trolls, spam, illegal photos, or hateful content, tolerating it is unnecessary. I’m not here to interact exclusively with folks who seek only to regress my understanding, personally.
Relatedly, the most delightful folks exist on a broadly defederated instance, beehaw. Also relatedly, solarpunk hosts my second favorite users. You guys are fantastic.
fuckingkangaroos@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Yeah, most instances should remain federated even if they’re somewhat distasteful. Just the extremes and harassers like Hexbear and lemmy.ml should be defederated.
gullible@fedia.io 3 months ago
I dislike lemmy.ml having an unwritten code of conduct upheld via admins but that really doesn’t extend outside their instance. Their users are largely fine so I’m fine with the instance. I do avoid their communities, though. Those are unpleasant due to the code of conduct.
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Do you mean lemmygrad?
fuckingkangaroos@lemm.ee 3 months ago
No, I mean lemmy.ml
It’s absolutely chock full of authoritarian propaganda and aggressive users. I abandoned an old account because they followed me around and downvoted everything I posted.
I love the idea of the Fediverse and want to see it thrive to the point where Facebook and the other corporate social media fail. I don’t think that’ll ever happen while aggressive propaganda instances like lemmy.ml are so prominent.
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Lemmy.ml and lemmygrad about ran by the developers. Lemmygrad is the extreme version of ml.
I love the concept of the fediverse but there are many people who just want to troll people. It needs some diversity of ideas to be successful long term