Should instances defederate with other instances anymore if we can filter instances out on our end? : fediverse

[–] Mikina@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago

Yes, because you don't want to provide them your content for free, so they can continue building engagement on your behalf.

[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 1 points 10 months ago

Btw, was feddit.ch somehow defederated?

[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yes, because end-user blocking only blocks posts from an instance, not its toxic users or their comments.

[–] crsu@lemmy.world -2 points 10 months ago

In general I think people are too eager to block and defederate for little to no reason other than disagreement. There are exceptions but as far as a normal conversation it's an overreaction and the antithesis of federating anyway. We already have plenty of siloed walled gardens that are echo chambers.

[+] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works -9 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Defederation should always be an extreme measure. Usually it's just the self-righteousness instinct trying to performatively obstruct other people. I usually find these discussions repulsive because of how people speak about each other (bitching about "tankies" or whatever and demanding that they be ideologically cleansed).

If we have more power to curate our own feeds, then there should be less defederation.

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[+] Dehydrated@lemmy.world -13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (7 children)

Yes, but users should be able to manually whitelist defederated instances so they can interact with such an instance, if they want to. Lemmygrad shouldn't be visible by default, but if you really like communist tankie shit, you should be able to manually allow it I guess.

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