I do strongly recommend watching the previous anime first, which is an EXCELLENT show! But yeah, this one is pretty great too.:-)
January 6 changed everything that came after it. This is a different country now, vs. before.
I remember learning about that - once you know, you can never unhear it again, and that's a good thing:-).
iirc, it was one of the points sold to people as we migrated away from Reddit during the exodus. But I like your more precise phrasing of what it actually is.:-) More was told during the exodus though, e.g. "just as Reddit is falling, if the instance you pick likewise falls, then you can move your account to another one", i.e. it barely matters which instance you picked at first, so just jump in and see. But different language may have been used at different times and places - e.g. the expectations of people already here vs. the newly incoming ones (like me:-).
Seems to fit a little here...
Anyone using the "cross-post" feature is doing things properly, so don't worry, the person you responded to just left that part out. They might be on an extremely old app that hasn't been updated to handle that feature - but you are good. Thank you for caring...and sharing:-).
You cannot defederate from a "community", but you can have your specific user account block either a community or an entire instance (to varying degrees of effectiveness - you can still see posts from people on those instances, and chat with them, but you won't receive "notifications" from them anymore).
Defederation from an "instance" is meant as a last-resort effort to avoid an enormous amount of moderation work, like if it keeps sending child porn across the Fediverse, or users are overwhelmingly harassing others or something.
Here, you can read about such occurrences directly from the sources involved (who chose to do it) like https://hexbear.net/post/1712067, and then various responses in return like https://programming.dev/post/2652745 (tldr: hexbear defederated from them, so they defederated in return to avoid people getting confused from one-sided conversations where messages could be sent but never received) and https://lemm.ee/comment/2155764 etc.
And yes, you are stuck at your current instance if you care about keeping your account. You can copy your rules like block list from one user account to another though, like I have an alt at StarTrek.online, which mitigates somewhat the pain of having to move. If someone were to try to send me a DM at my old one though, I would not get it at the new account - instead I would have to keep both active, forever. It turns out that the idea that you can move freely around the Fediverse was a lie - or at least, it is something that isn't fully implemented yet. Theoretically it is something that could be done, if someone were to bother to implement that, but it hasn't been done yet.
All of Lemmy is still beta software. It helps to lower expectations:-). It is still 1000x better than Reddit imho, b/c of (a) no ads and lack of other forms of enshittification as well (e.g. automatically playing videos that you cannot stop with a setting somewhere), (b) the people are more worth talking to here (generally speaking; except those places that tend to be defederated by the major instances, b/c of all the harassment they kept doing).
We will lose some stuff that we now have... and we will gain other stuff that we could barely dream about. Only take on what you can handle, and be kind to yourself:-).
That's just how awesome he was - he did it before it was cool 😎.
We need to strike the right balance imho, putting our hope in solid things. Brexit happened in the UK, showing that "doing the right thing" isn't always guaranteed, and yet despite their pain they are chugging along, and the USA will too, in some form or another. That said, avoiding Brexit definitely would have been a better outcome so... sometimes people should have more fear than they do, e.g. to not fall for obvious scams that can take everything you have.
Be vigilant, and also protect your joy in living everyday life, bc at the end of the day that's kinda all you have so don't let it slip away with too many far-off thoughts that you have no control over.
Well the sound effect itself isn't great, but it's great (imho) to hear the homage whenever it is used:-).