That's true but there are nuanced social consequences for the entire group because of the actions one or a few individuals. The moderation model of Lemmy will be different and needs to start at the home instance. Because all it takes is a few people to act up and suddenly your instance has no content.
Thanks for doing the hard work to keep our instance updated and online! Do you have a wish list or fundraising goal? I want to do my part to keep our community sustainable.
Got it, this makes sense now. So in the case where I setup myownlemmy.com, I actually won't be able to get any content to my Lemmy unless I tell other instance admins I exist and they push their content to me. But then let's say lemmygrad starts pushing me their stuff and I'm like whoa don't want all that, blocked.
Hmm interesting I tried the same and it worked. Is this standard practice for kbin magazine lookups on Lemmy? Like does using the URL work on Fedia magazines also?
When I look at the instances list on SJW, they are still federating beehaw. So if you try to view technology@beehaw.org right now through SJW do you see the latest posts that are on the main site? I'm curious because I think you should see them, they just won't see your posts or comments.
As long as beehaw is only de-linking these instances rather than actually blocking them, doesn't that still allow them to pull new posts and comments from beehaw? It's like the no-participation mode that r/bestof uses.
I'm still confused on how the sending works of posts and comments between instances. Like if I want to set up my own instance and pull posts from lemmy.world and beehaw.org, surely I can do that without both of them needing to give me permission via federation? Unless they actively blocked my instance. It would only be when I make a post or comment on my copy on my instance that their users would not see it unless they federated with me. But let's say Midwest.social federates with my new instance, would their users not also see my posts and comments regardless of the community I posted them to?
I used to be into custom ROMs back in the day so that was my excuse that I didn't want a corporate experience. But that was over a decade ago and all of those community features have now been pulled into the main AOSP. So now the only good reason is because it's the only smartphone OS I've ever owned or used really.
But why would it disrupt your subscriptions if lemmy.world and SJW are still federating beehaw? Can't one instance federate another without it being mutual? Is that the difference between a non-federated instance and a blocked instances, where blocked instances cannot even read your content?
Edit: Actually I think I understand. I checked the blocked instances and they are not blocked just delinked. So in that case, you must be a beehaw user who lost your subscriptions to communities on lemmy.world and SJW.
My understanding is that the subscriber count shown for a community is always exclusive to your own instance. Like if I go to !technology@beehaw.org I only see subscribers from midwest.social. But I still see posts and comments from lemmy.world users because my instance federates with both lemmy.world and beehaw.org.
Well good for them, they can have a lot of fun paying reddit staff to be the mods now.
I mean, I would eat that!