• ShittyKopper [they/them]@lemmy.w.on-t.work
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    1 year ago

    all the major lemmy instances

    Read: just two instances who got really big, alongside literal tankies (but not dot-ml) and some fash

    Just in case you’re confused, most of their blocked instances are not even Lemmy instances but the general ActivityPub background radiation nobody really wants to see.

    Also, if just two instances get big enough to be “all the major lemmy instances” than isn’t that a problem of federation to begin with? Some admins need to learn to just shut registrations down jfc.

    • qwamqwamqwam@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Whatever the ideal decentralized setup may be, the truth of the matter is that the current setup makes it significantly harder to surface content from instances outside of one’s own. I’d prefer to point people towards lemmy.world than to send them to a smaller server and have to field questions about why the servers they’re trying to join are out of date or possibly not available at all. As people get more comfortable with the setup, they can branch further out into the federation as they please.