Maybe something that is not understood by new lemmings, at least me, is that when we join communities in other instances we may find ourselves blocked from accessing them (without creating another account) in the future.
A reasonable PSA seems to be to keep in mind the 'philosophy' of other instances before joining general interest communities such as News, Technology, Gaming, etc...
I wouldn't call it worse. From what I learned, their goals of being a super-curated-exclusive community don't agree with mine, so I'm happy I signed up for a more open instance
When choosing instance for your account there should be info on how much instances are blocked by the instance and how many instances are blocking this instance
That would be a good PSA for sure. As the platform grows, each instance will develop it's own theme and culture (some of which is already noticeable).
Each user will then need to decide what instance seems to be the closest to what they want Lemmy to be like, and then join that. I only hope it doesn't boil down to echo chambers who refuse to federate with each other due to petty reasons.
note most of the instances blocked by lemmy.dbzer0.com are mastodon servers. Simply copied part of the block list from hachyderm.io as I'm closely coordinating with them
huh, I didn't know lemmy also federated with mastodon. i guess posts from there show up like a regular post from a lemmy instance would? As opposed to kbin which I think has a separate tab in the ui for microblogging
anywho, i'm curious to know what the majority of defeds were for? like was it extremist stuff, heavily unmoderated instance, or something else
edit: appears from perusing the link above its mostly looks like reasonable defeds, though some of them are so small that it's questionable if they would ever interact with the instance