This is the issue.
How are new users meant to know what instances federate with which other instances and which are blocked? E.g. that Beehaw defederated with the Lemmy.world instances?
What (most) users want is to be able to see a sane set of defaults and from there make their own choices about what they do and don’t want to see. But by the time they’ve made an account. Subbed to a few communities etc there is a wall to leaving for another instance if you don’t like the way something is being run given there is no easy way to migrate your profile to another instance that may suit you better.
Now don’t get me wrong, online harassment sucks to put it lightly. Nobody should have to put up with it and it’s entirely (to reuse my previous example) beehaw’s right to block harassment causing instances, but that doesn’t make it any easier for new people trying to get into the lemmy ecosystem.
Seems like all of the federated applications could use a way to export your social data and import on another instance.
After all the drama revealed on Mastodon by this weekend’s shitstorms this feels so damn real now…
Context?
Meta made a secret meeting with signed NDAs with the admins of multiple Matodon instances in preparation for their upcoming Twitter alternative. This of course wasn’t taken lightly by people and has caused divisions. This is what i think the best summary of some of the inter-instance drama that happened, maybe the best summary of events in general ever made on the history of the Fediverse
God I hate that “Oh I’m so adhd” writing style. But thanks for the detail.
It feels very 2010s Tumblr.
As much as Im curious to what drama unfolded, I had to stop reading that text
Good god, same.
You guys did not oversell. Oof.
