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Is there any hope? Or is it inevitable that big corporations will take over what started as a way to escape big corporate platforms and to focus on real communities and discussions and replace it with a toxic shithole pumped full of ads?

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[–] AlecSadler@lemmy.world 120 points 1 year ago (3 children)

We could collectively vote to defederate them.

[–] fidodo@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How does defederation work? Is it global or is it in a per instance basis?

[–] DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Any instance can choose what other instances it interacts with.

[–] fidodo@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So it would need to be a movement across instances, not just a single action, but given the principles of the user base here and why we're here I think that movement would be very successful.

[–] ShittyKopper@lemmy.w.on-t.work 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] riceball@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s giving 2000s hello kitty fan site

[–] tristar@lemmyfly.org 1 points 1 year ago

Yes. I love it so much.

[–] sheepyowl@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago

For now, in the past 30 days I've seen instances be very active in moderation and development and federation\defederation. They defederate even when they don't need to. This anecdotal experience leads me to believe that most instances will defederate from Meta, but I'm certain that a few of them will not.

[–] Ado@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] mochi@lemdit.com 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But just as a side note, a user can block an entire instance as well, at least on Mastodon. I haven't checked for that functionality on Lemmy. That's not defederation, but it prevents you from seeing things you don't want to at the user level.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I haven’t found it but I’d love to see it if I can. As world is struggling I want to use an alt but most alternatives haven’t defederated exploding heads

[–] mochi@lemdit.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What happened with exploding heads?

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They’re extremely comfortable with homophobia and transphobia. When I was seeing if I could ban them for example they were talking about considering “cis” and “cisgender” a slur that’s bannable, but they don’t consider a particular word starting with an f that bad.

[–] mochi@lemdit.com 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you for the explanation.

[–] fbievan@fedia.io 0 points 1 year ago

that is already being done

[–] Kururin@lemmy.kururin.tech -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] SaintOfIllusion@lemmy.one 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Though the participation is needed/appreciated, can we let "This!" die with Reddit?

[–] riceball@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

This! (jk this comment is an ironic statement funded by the shadow government)

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