Context

The main arguments for people to defederate are

  • “Embrace, extend, and extinguish” strategy: https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html
  • A potential federation with Threads (should Thread decide to implement it) would overwhelm Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed with millions of users (compared to the 40k monthly current active users), transforming those platforms into a threaded version of Facebook
  • Defederating preventively costs nothing

LW stance: https://lemmy.world/post/1274909?scrollToComments=true

  • JackbyDev
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    3 hours ago

    You never mentioned instance blocking. Yeah, it’s not a Lemmy thing and because of that it’s a little wonky. Various front ends handle it differently.

    It might be worth editing it into your comment for clarity. When you say “block tankies” it isn’t immediately clear you mean blocking an instance because “tankies” can exist anywhere and “non-tankies” can exist on “tankie instances”.

    (I’m not trying to be a pedantic jerk, either. Sorry if it sounds like that. If it does sound like that then it’s just the stress from the US election getting to me. 💜)

    Also, I’d like to specifically mention that I’m sorry you got harassed. That sucks. 💜