• @NazrinOP
    9•1 year ago

    Oh. There’s no need to make a new one, there’s plenty of those. Just make an account with any of the instances we are still federated with. If you are lucky, you’ll find one where the admin is just - absent.

    • rinkan 輪姦
      1•1 year ago

      I’m suggesting it more for the general health of the threadiverse and as a way to keep burggit from being isolated, rather than for my own personal convenience. Something to counter the current puritan populist trend.

      Of the top 10, the only instances that haven’t defederated us are lemmy.fmhy.ml, vlemmy.net, and programming.dev. I’m assuming that programming.dev is a fluke, and will defederate us as soon as they notice us. How do we know that fmhy and vlemmy won’t also defederate? They don’t have any specific federation policy posted. And if they won’t, are they capable of scaling up?

        • rinkan 輪姦
          1•1 year ago

          That’s good to hear. I see that they have a mainstream content moderation policy for their own content, along with their open federation stance. Maybe they’ll be the start of what I mentioned in my other comment:

          Eventually most instances should be ones with well-defined, liberal federation policies, while those with more restrictive or arbitrary federation will be relegated to the sidelines. One such instance is needed to get this process started though, and the sooner the better.

          I do think they should hammer out a more detailed policy and have it linked from the instance sidebar so other admins can find it easily. There will be other instances that they need to defederate in the future. “Make sure your users don’t break our rules on our communities” is probably the most important part of such a policy.

          I’m also curious what they defederated lemmygrad for. No love lost there, but I think the reasoning is important.