• goatOPM
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    1 year ago

    except they make decisions that affect the entirety of lemmy, such as introducing Hexbear into the fediverse

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      1 year ago

      How do you mean? Lemmy is open source, anyone can create an instance, they don’t need the developers permission… And other instances are free to defederate from them.

    • kirk781@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Ah, so I am not the only one suffering from posts from that instance. Hexbear was so bad I had to block that instance from appearing in my feed.

    • Antik 👾@lemmy.world
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      How? Hexbear decided to make their fork compatible with Lemmy again and to federate. And as you know plenty of instances defederated with hexbear since.

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        1 year ago

        The devs helped assist with that.

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        1 year ago

        Another tankie instance

        • librechad@lemm.ee
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          Oh, okay but do the Lemmy devs really have control over who starts an instance? Isn’t this the whole point of the fediverse or do I have it wrong?

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            Don’t the Lemmy devs and the Hexbears moderators have overlapping people?

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            They don’t have control over instances, no. However they can deny tech support or delisting your instance with others across the fediverse.

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              1 year ago

              Censorship, we need more censorship

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                1 year ago

                What do you mean?

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                  1 year ago

                  More censorship to Lemmy, ban by IP, and defederate any instance that doesn’t only post about politics, and take them to the court

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      Yeah … But that power is only in their hands because the rest of us are complacent, like for me I don’t think I have the time to take over lemmy development :/