Oh, thank god for defederating exploding-heads.

I really like that you are codifying policy like this.

The "instance is mostly made up by bots" is obviously a great call but your wording makes it sound like <50% bots is cool, >50% bots is not cool. haha

The hysterics over the as yet purely hypothetical prospect of Facebook/Threads being on the fediverse, along with some worrying signs of censorship, have caused me to to flee lemmy.world. Here’s hoping FMHY will be a better fit for me.

Can always check https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/instances . Blocked Instances are at the bottom

I would have preferred to have a no-defederation policy (except for maybe threads due to EEE fears), but as long as it is not swung around constantly, I am okay with it.

The two that are blocked are political circlejerks that I personally dislike anyways. I am hopeful there is not more.

So what does deferedating from them do for us? I wasn't seeing their content anyway because it wasn't popular enough to end up on all.

Does it have any practical effects for fmhy users?

I personally joined this instance because so many other large ones have massive federation lists. So if the only effect of defederating is to send a message, then I'm not sure I'm for that.

I just hope this is done as an absolute last resort, and doesn’t become common practice.

Defederation means we have disconnected our instance from another, and our users will no longer be able to see communities, posts or comments from users on the defederated instance.

It should be noted that it's a two way street, no? They won't see any content from here either?

Also, I thought single community ban from other instances wasn't possible yet? I remember the vlemmy guy saying that before going MIA.

Censorship is cool again 1 month after reddit fucked up

and their users won't be able to see anything coming from ours.

That is not true, beehaw defederated from sh.itjust.works, but we can still see posts from beehaw in our feed. Granted, if we comment, nothing gets sent back to beehaw, only members of sh.itjust.works will see those comments.

defederate enough and people will switch, much less friction to just go to a more open instance. much better than what we had with centralized sites.

Yes, very cool. And about Threads, I will probably block Threads myself just because it's a twitter clone, it doesn't need to be on lemmy. But people should be able to make that decision themselves.

exploding-heads

:o

Isn't lemmygrad a community on the lemmy.ml instance, not an instance in itself?