What defederating would mean:
- We won’t see beehaw.org posts/comments on other instances.
Pros:
- There is less confusion, you can’t respond to a beehaw.org user, thinking they will be able to see your response when in reality they cannot.
Cons:
- We won’t be able to see any beehaw.org comments/posts on other instances, so we will miss out on some comment threads and posts. It could be good to be able to see them and interact with the other users there even though beehaw.org users won’t see any of our content.
Summary
Overall, I think it is better not to defederate, but simply unsubscribe from all of their communities (and as we no longer get posts from their instance, with time these will cease to appear on our ‘front page’).
beehaw.org users already can’t see our posts/comments anywhere so it’s not like defederating would change their experience in any way, so it wouldn’t really be retaliation and would just limit the content available to lemmy.world users.
What do you think?
Or… here’s a wild idea… let instances do what they want?
If an instance wants to act the fool or allow trolls to overrun their space, then another instance can choose to not want anything to do with it.
They can do what they want though. But so can lemmy.world
dang it, now I regret deleting my comment.
Context: “Or… here’s a wild idea… let instances do what they want? If an instance wants to act the fool or allow trolls to overrun their space, then another instance can choose to not want anything to do with it.”
I also edited to add “If you simply don’t jive with how one instance does things, you can [defederate from them] too. And if I don’t like that, I can move.”
I deleted my comment because… hey, I’m not on lemmy.world, so this doesn’t affect me.
Hey, I agree with you BTW. That’s kinda how the Fediverse works. I don’t need access to everything and everything doesn’t need access to me-- and that’s true for everybody.
That’s why I stuck around, I guess. If I really want to access an instance that badly, there’s always RSS.