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In light of lemmy.world's pre-emptive defederation of hexbear, would anyone support defederating lemmy.world? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The way .world has dominated is problematic for federation, honestly.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I agree, but it's too late now. Even Sync defaults to the .world instance, and at this rate, they'll only grow bigger.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

That seems like an argument from tradition though. Just because something has default become some way doesn't mean it has to remain so. I think there's bigger principles at play, censorship of minority opinions for starters.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah it won't happen on its own, there would need to be a concentrated effort to oppose .world domination at this point.

It won't be a problem until .world starts demanding mutual defederation (i.e. instances federated with .world have to pledge to defederate from instances .world deems problematic)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

.world domination

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It won’t be a problem until .world starts demanding mutual defederation

To invoke the fallacy that isn't always fallacious (slippery slope) that seems like the logical next step. If they amass too much power and are already abusing it this way, what's to prevent them doing this next?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

I don't think they'll do that until they federate with Threads 🤑