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On Lemmy, it's shown. On Mastodon, instances are given the ability to hide their blocked instances which IMO hinders people's ability to join. A lot of the drama on the fediverse with regards to blocking is from Mastodon and similar instances.

People claim the instance you join doesn't matter because "everything is federated!" but it kind of does. It strongly affects the people who will see your posts and even who you can follow, and if you don't know what an instance is blocking it creates an air of uncertainty. I've seen instances get blocked for stupid at best and downright malicious at worst reasons, so the 4chan post isn't inherently wrong.

I'm waiting for Japanese-to-English translation tbh. I know it'll take time, but it's worth shouting it into the ether.

Limited essentially means the instance is put in quarantine. AFAIK it won't appear on the federated timelines but users can still follow and communicate to them if they desire.

Yup. I guess the gist of it is, Linux is great for just general gaming, but if you've got something specific, it's just not there yet. (I see a bit about VR too)

And racing sims. I was talking to someone on Bluesky and they said the lack of racing sim gear support is holding them back.

I remember people complaining about Bluesky's lack of privacy, and tbf there's a lot of privacy/security theatre they do that makes a lot of mixed messaging, but people presenting the fediverse as this privacy-friendly alternative is... laughable, for the reasons you stated.

How? Not doubting you but that's very weird.

Yeah the detailed explanation would be very helpful. It's nice that Lemmy has the page at least (and I learned something new today), though that is just Lemmy and the fediverse is much bigger than that. I believe Misskey and Pleroma share it similarly to Lemmy, while Mastodon allows admins to hide it from the public (which, as I said, will act as a barrier to those wanting to sign up)

Yeah there's a similar tool for the wider microblogging part of fediverse (Mastodon, Pleroma, Misskey, etc.) but because it was made by an edgelord it gets dismissed. I get the vibe some instances just don't want to share that information, which is important when you're basically dealing with web infrastructure, and get mad when you seek that information out.

tbh this is a general issue with the fediverse. Some instances aren't transparent about who is being blocked and why. It made it a whole lot more difficult for me to figure out what instance I should go for.

Was going to say that Consent-o-Matic wasn't on Android but there's now a banner that says when it's compatible. That extension has really saved me a lot of time, got it on my Android phone.

Pretty much, yeah.