Makes quite a bit of sense

Depending on jurisdiction it can be pretty hairy if your instance downloads it

IANAL but I'm pretty sure that in the US you have a "duty to report" and you can have legal protections if you end up getting it and then reporting it

But IANAL so I'd recommend looking into it with an actual lawyer if you run a website that hosts content

Won't that lead to some horrible hug-of-death type scenarios if a post from a small instance gets popular on a huge one?

This is what I'm waiting for before I host my own as well. Rather not have to worry that much about constantly having to admin out CSAM.

Do we have a way to combine feeds yet? I don't know of one. So it's kinda annoying to jump from account to account to make sure your seeing everything.

Social media needs to be as easy as possible if you're going to reach the masses. Most people do not give a shit enough to create 3 accounts; they'll just leave.

Counterpoint: new users who don't know the ins and outs of the fediverse might join an instance at random and see significantly less content.

I'm high as fuck right now

Too many people never used forums and think every site needs to talk to every site.

I don't get it either. Defederation is a tool just like banning or spam prevention. If it's unused it's pointless to have.

But you don't ban everyone for a single offense just like to don't defederate lightly. If you do then people will move elsewhere and the problem resolves itself

I've said it before and I'll say it again: If instances weren't supposed to be ever defederate, then we wouldn't have the tool. In the absence of real moderation/admin tools it's going to get used more frequently. And that's the admin owner's right!

I would say that a big part of the issue is the difficulty in transferring one's account. Ignoring the fact that one simply can't transfer their posts, trying to manually copy all previously subscribed communities to a new account is a rather tedious task. I am aware that there exists scripts that can automate that process, but I don't think that it's fair to expect that the userbase should run 3rd party scripts. Until account transfer is properly implemented, defederation will continue to be a major issue.

I think the best part of the fed is that you can see ALL the content from the other instances. I personally feel like its what the internet is supposed to be.

Blocking an instance on a user by user basis has a key drawback in the sense of those instances you block can still influence the posts and comments via up and down votes

Defederating basically means that those instances no longer have any influence on the community you're a part of

Basically think of it this way, say you're on a queer friendly instance that is still federated with a right wing instance. That right wing instance can manipulate the posts of the queer friendly instance by up voting queerphobic content and down voting queer positive content. And you block the instance as a user those votes still federated over so you'll see queer positive content getting down voted to oblivion.

Connect is a great android app where you can block instances. Though I agree this should be a site wide feature.

From the same people who gave you

• I'm never unfaithful

• I never get into fights

• I'm not a bully

theres also some other drama with tankies and communists as far as I understand. I dont really care about political views of people