Argh. Now I‘m on your side here, and think the ban was neither justified nor was their policy of “Everyone STFU this thread is now locked, you are all dumb” in any way something that makes me think communities should be hosted on lemmy.world. But calling it “saying I don’t like ads” is utterly ridiculous.

They also banned the mod of a community, then lied about facts, and closed the thread discussing it. Oh wait, you were the user who got banned. Yeah, that was the point I realized lemmy.world is a bad instance.

I’d actually say this is more for asklemmy than fediverse ;)

But as we are in !fediverse, I’ll also go with my instance and join the “one dude by himself” tribe. My wife is also allowed to join if she wants.

I only subscribe to 4 German communities, and I can very clearly see by an influx of posts and comments on my front page when my countrypeople wake up, so I could actually believe that :D

No, if you defederate from them, all connections to them are blocked. But federated data is public, if they wanted it, they could just grab it via the API.

No, defederating also blocks you from seeing the comments and posts of users of those instances, no matter where the communities are. That is literally the only reason for my 2 defederated instances so far (hexbear and lemmygrad) because I got sick of all the fascist comments.

I’m currently defederated from only 2 instances. You would be unable to have this discussion with me if you went your way, unless you whitelisted all those mini-instances and regularly checked for new ones.

I’m glad I have my own instance where I only defederate from instances creating issues.

Again, that’s just what federates and automatically gets saved. You could have gotten that information by checking any proper Mastodon instance privacy policy or reading about the Fediverse on a more technical level.

But it’s still no news in any way. This article is simply saying “Threads still plans to federate, eventually”, nothing else changed.

No idea how it works for Mastodon, but for Lemmy they will have the IP of the server, nothing else is available and they can’t magically get it.

Unless I’m misunderstanding, that is simply a privacy policy that covers what is saved via federation. The same is true for any federated service, including my server, as I follow !fediverse@lemmy.ml, I save all your likes, shares, profile pictures etc. for this community.

What are they twisting? You sound more toxic and FUD-spreading than them, right now.

Why don’t the people whose rights are infringed not do something instead of telling the infringer to fix it? I don’t know, but I can certainly understand it.

Huh strange I don’t see any link in the OP?

It’s a link post, click on the title.

Sounds like raddle looking for drama again to me.

They seem toxic in general, but they have a point in this case and are most certainly not the bad guys, but ernest is.

and is dealing with it

This was 2 months ago with absolutely nothing happening when there really isn’t much required.

They did, the issue is even linked in the post: https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/196

Note that it only checks explicit blocks, but not instances employing whitelisting.

Edit: typo

if you see something which is worthy of a downvote: down vote and move on! Don’t engage with it and feed the algorithm/engament machine so other people are exposed to it when sorting by active.

Uh, no thanks? That’s exactly what happens on Reddit. People see something, don’t understand it disagree, downvote, and move on. That’s asshole behavior. Tell someone why what they said is dumb, and expose your own idiocy so others can laugh at them.