I don't want to be incendiary, but aren't they just getting new mods? Are the new people going to show up and wreck the place for fun?

The what?

I'm not that well read on this subject, but you can do this in your house or with a VPS? I always thought there was some conflict with residential internet and selfhosting?

Maybe I'm being pessimistic, but this whole thing is starting to sound like "don't interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." Was it rigged from the start? For a couple of days everyone was civil and in less than a week, "Let's Get Ready toooo RUMBLE"!

Was there another way?

Out of the loop here, but I've heard about this.

Is this roblox?

I will elaborate. Every user can and should make a list of instances they personally don't like, but admins/mods are also users. They're just telling you that we don't like these instances, but it's your choice on whether you want to block them or not. Maybe they shouldn't show it to you upon signup, I sort of agree there but a new user showing up and needing to start by cleaning up the place to their liking is a bit of friction for them. Will make a stronger selling point for another server that just defederates by default.

Here is the answer.

Autoblock spam and illegal content Make a "not cool" communities list and allow users to check a button upon signing up to block instantly.

Problem solved.

Using Speed Queen as a benchmark, how does Maytag compare? I think they're cheaper but is the quality comparable?

Not sure if I should just make a post for this, but I will ask here.

Is lemmy searchable? The main appeal of reddit for me was searchability. I see a lot of different instances with different domains names.Maybe there is a meta search or something? Adding reddit to the end of a search was very convenient.

Yes but I only see 2 problems so far. The siloing of instances and searchability. I can't search with lemmy yet since there are so many instances with no standard like with site:reddit.com. Way less issues than dealing with reddit so it's a big win for me!

I like the idea of nostr, but is there a fork around to avoid the stream of cringe bitcoin talk? I think this would be ideal for something like high speed discord, more than a twitter replacement.

I'm not sure on this, but I think it's the latter that you mentioned.

Why continue to mod it then? Let the place wreck itself with whatever nefarious modder shows up to do the dirty work.

So they're just kicking everyone in the balls and hoping coins fall out. Risky bet...

If everyone plays nice, you get to have really big islands. But that's only if your overlords (the mods) allow it. If they don't like an instance, see ya! I don't think this happens often other than blocking spam and illegal activity, but you can clearly see how this will make all the mini islands.

Excellent list friend

It's essentially like email. If you have a gmail, you can communicate with anyone on any other email service. If gmail determines that spamsite.xyz, you won't send or recieve any emails from that domain. Same thing here. You're using lemmy.world. If lemmy.world defederates with my server sh.itjust.works, you won't see my messages. We will just never cross paths.

What does this have over twitch? Are they less uptight about rules etc?

Then you will need to follow users around other places that they interact. You just get more work creep at the end of it all.