I remember when I joined here that tchncs did not federate with Lemmygrad. Is there a reason why it is now? I don’t think it’s a good instance, since it full of (roleplaying) communists hating on the western world… and I wouldn’t want that shit in my “All” feed. Thank you.
From the outside, lemmygrad isn’t prone to people seeking to disrupt other instances, nor towards actively “proselytizing” in a disruptive manner. While the whole instance is too extremist for my tastes (and I’m borderline socialist tbh), the people from there tend to be respectful and follow community/instance rules elsewhere.
It really is one of those things where having access to user instance blocking is a great idea, so the we could just avoid posts from there, but still have the users as part of the greater fediverse. I use connect 95% of the time, and the blocking it does shows an option when you run across comments from a blocked instance, allowing you to decide to deal with it or not. I really like that setup but I don’t think it would be viable as a part of the lemmy software itself.
No bullshit, I have accounts on instances that haven’t defederated with lemmygrad, and the people tend to be very chill when not on their instance.
For me, that’s the standard I use when someone calls for defederation: is the instance as a whole the problem, is it the users, and/or is the instance actively seeking to disrupt other places. Exploding heads, as the worst possible example of needing wide defederation, was full of users actively seeking to disrupt other instances. Hexbear was actively planning that kind of behavior. Lemmygrad never has that I’ve seen.
Again, I’m here from another instance, and I don’t have an account here, just giving an external view of things for conversation’s sake :)