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If we defederate Hexbear and ml, that will go some of the way to easing those bad experiences for new users
ml is run by the devs of Lemmy so unfortunately that's not realistic, you could be missing on a ton of information if you want to subscribe to Lemmy development or information related communities
those posts get crossposted anyways, you wouldn't be missing much
The devs can make accounts on a less controversial instance if they want their news to be heard by the rest of us
(1) they already did that with lemmygrad.ml.
(2) There are other ways, like watching the actual GitHub repo.
(3) bold of you to presume that this is what they want. Rather they seem quite content to hold that knowledge hostage.
Truly, it's their software and they can do as they please, even put a good fraction of the funding donated to them towards moderating that specific, highly controversial instance rather than further code development.
- Nutomic responding to a feature request
You need to realize that they made Lemmy for themselves, not first and foremost for the benefit of the entire world, thus even something that harms the Threadiverse but that benefits lemmy.ml specifically is preferable to helping everyone at the expense of it. They do not think like you do, and do not want what you want.
See e.g. this description explaining how Lemmy.ml is about to become even more centralized as the authoritarian decider of what communities are to be allowed to be recommended to a new Lemmy instance - thus it will become embedded into the code itself that anything defederated by Lemmy.ml will be cut off from the rest of the Threadiverse by default. Which honestly is easy to override by simply adding the communities manually, but still is evidence that the Lemmy devs are already moving in the exact opposite direction of what you suggested should be done. They have placed that extremely firm line in the sand: either accept Lemmy.ml or make your own Reddit alternative on the Threadiverse (which both PieFed and Mbin are doing).