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Isn't there an issue with instances blocking certain communities on other instances?

BudaDude 3y ago
Yes but if I recall correctly, whatever you are subscribed to you still see in your feed, even if it’s blocked by the instance. I may be incorrect and if so please correct me.
- Stephen304 3y ago
  I think you're thinking about "limiting" another instance, where content from the limited instance is excluded from public feeds but still shows up in personal feeds to those who are subscribed. Sadly limiting instances like mastodon can do isn't available in lemmy or kbin afaik, so highly moderated instances like beehaw are resorting to complete disconnection (defederation) for now until moderation tooling improves. One caveat about the current implementations is that a defederated instance doesn't seem to know it's been defederated from, so a stale copy of the remote content still exists and can be interacted with (users can post in the remote community that defederated and comment on stale posts, or even new posts in the remote community that are made by local users, however none of that will get synced to the remote communities / instance that defederated).
JCharante 3y ago
Isn't there an issue with reddit banning certain communities? With the fediverse you can choose to be on an instance that doesn't block others or be on an instance that does block. For example, the instance I'm on defederates from 4 instances while beehaw defederates from 100+
- networkchad 3y ago
  Is there a visual / graph that shows these relationships and blockings? Would make navigating whom is censoring what much more easier.
- deelowe 3y ago
  Why would I care what reddit does? I'm trying to understand how Lemmy works.
onlyrealcuzzo 3y ago
Problem easily solved: start your own instance, or find one that doesn't block other instances...
- wccrawford 3y ago
  Can your own instance be behind a firewall, or does it need to be available from the web in general?
- deelowe 3y ago
  No. That's silly.

Yes but if I recall correctly, whatever you are subscribed to you still see in your feed, even if it’s blocked by the instance. I may be incorrect and if so please correct me.

Stephen304 3y ago
I think you're thinking about "limiting" another instance, where content from the limited instance is excluded from public feeds but still shows up in personal feeds to those who are subscribed. Sadly limiting instances like mastodon can do isn't available in lemmy or kbin afaik, so highly moderated instances like beehaw are resorting to complete disconnection (defederation) for now until moderation tooling improves. One caveat about the current implementations is that a defederated instance doesn't seem to know it's been defederated from, so a stale copy of the remote content still exists and can be interacted with (users can post in the remote community that defederated and comment on stale posts, or even new posts in the remote community that are made by local users, however none of that will get synced to the remote communities / instance that defederated).

JCharante 3y ago

Isn't there an issue with reddit banning certain communities? With the fediverse you can choose to be on an instance that doesn't block others or be on an instance that does block. For example, the instance I'm on defederates from 4 instances while beehaw defederates from 100+

networkchad 3y ago
Is there a visual / graph that shows these relationships and blockings? Would make navigating whom is censoring what much more easier.
deelowe 3y ago
Why would I care what reddit does? I'm trying to understand how Lemmy works.

onlyrealcuzzo 3y ago

Problem easily solved: start your own instance, or find one that doesn't block other instances...

wccrawford 3y ago
Can your own instance be behind a firewall, or does it need to be available from the web in general?
deelowe 3y ago
No. That's silly.