If I was logged into several instances at once in the client and seeing the composite feed and then could choose instance when replying or posting (with some set default, like from: field in e-mail clients) lemmy.world could ban piracy all it wants and it’d still be in my feed without me having to leave it or change instances.
The entire point of federated social media is that you can swap instances if you don’t agree with policies. That’s the whole point of Lemmy!
All lemmy needs is to allow us to export/import our sub and block lists to make it easy tbh. Then it’ll be purrfect.
yeah I’d say user management across instances is the biggest flaw in the fediverse right now. Mastadon has made decent progress in that area, but it’s still imperfect.
A lot of the benefits of federation are weakened by the fact that it’s a pretty huge PITA to change instances
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I want to move the communities I founded off of LW too.
The liftoff app has the ability to show multiple accounts across multiple instances.
Also… Lemmy.world has/will become the default at this point in time. When you eventually get big enough you even up having to cater for the “laws”.
Are they defederating from instances that are neutral as well? Or defed’ing from the privacy instances?
It’s deeply unfortunate it’s essentially made itself the “default”
It’s not the first instance that has done something because of legal concerns about content from other instances. Many have already defederated from lemmynsfw.com because of that.
If you defederate from porn because of legal reasons you might as well be a private instance. Porn is allowed in every country bar a few on earth, and users even have the ability to turn off all NSFW content via their profile. Adult content is the easiest to solve for.
But that is just porn and I understand your point. At the end of the day, any instance is allowed to connect with whomever they want. Regardless of reasoning.
We had a few communities on Reddthat that were blocked on an instance level by hacking the database. After it subscribes between two instances you remove the db connection and it tricks Lemmy and doesn’t re-subscribe.
Within a month, third party applications will have multi account auto creation features with syncing of community subscriptions or abilities to connect directly into the communities that are siloed.
If I was logged into several instances at once…without me having to leave it or change instances.
So you’re working around having to change instances by changing instances? Am I missing something?
There should be an option to see all posts on our feed from all our instances. Then when commenting choose the instance from which the comment has to be posted.
This needs to be done carefully. At the extreme you’re asking every instance for a list of posts from all instances. It could become something like a DOS. Having just a few accounts should be fine though. Or just asking one instance for “all” and others for “local”.
Maybe a digital signature of some kind to copy and paste from one account to another, or account to account import/export of the subscribe list.
The only way to guarantee you can see exactly what you want, without being at the mercy of anyone else, is to run your own instance.
This is why you don’t join the popular instance. Eventually the shitbirds ruin it.
Yup, I joined the smallest of the bigger communities and it has worked out pretty well. I’ll probably need to leave eventually once it gets too big, but for now it works well.
Yup, I joined the smallest of the bigger communities
What does that even mean
When I joined, there were about three major instances, and the rest were quite a bit smaller (I.e. <50 users). So I picked the smallest of the big instances (I think it had 500 or so users).
Basically, I wanted more than 100 or so users to have a better chance of the admin being active enough to respond to issues, but I didn’t want to be with one of the top instances to avoid outages and whatnot.
Okay fair enough, I suppose that’s not so clear cut nowadays
Looking at the numbers now, I’d probably go with tchncs, lemmy.ca, or programming.dev, based largely on userbase, hosting location, and a quick look at the front page. But for now, sh.itjust.works has been pretty reliable, so I haven’t felt the need to switch.
I just chose feddit.nl because it’s the only one in my country, has been rock solid though
Awesome. :)
I’m in the US, and I’d prefer to not have one based here due to stupid local laws. sh.itjust.works is based in Canada, so that works well enough for me.
Looking through the top instances, I’m glad to see a lot more diversity in instance locations with lots of users. It used to mostly be US, CA, and Germany (and maybe UK?), but now there’s a lot more.
The most mediumest.
Niche communities should be on niche instances and users should join smaller instances that federate with their interests.
Banning piracy? Like the mere encouragement or?
That instance is fast becoming moderated as just as much of a neoliberal authoritarian shithole as r/politics was 🤦
Banning piracy? Like the mere encouragement or?
Just the mere encouragement & discussion, yes. The banned communities do not allow direct links to pirated content (!piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com has a rule forbidding that).
It’s strange to see people saying there was some sort of legit reasoning, the lemmy.world admins did not receive any sort of legal DMCA/NTD request or anything of the sort. They were simply trolled hard by a brand new account from lemm.ee asking to defederate from “piracy” communities and lemmy.world admins took the bait. See the post yourself https://lemmy.world/post/3175920
Incidentally that same user has created troll accounts at other instances & have been getting themselves banned, they were already banned at the dbzer0 instance (see https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/1956277) so it looks like it was simple retaliation to attempt to trick other instances into defederating/blocking them.
ITT: Entitled twats getting grumpy that a private service won’t host their discussion about stealing content they’re definitely entitled to.
