Incase anyone tells you that lemmy.ml is not a tankie instance.
this post was submitted on 05 Sep 2024
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Why? I'd prefer to make the decision on an individual basis, genuinely.
Then host your own instance or join a different one. You're free to do that. Defederating from instances that consistently produce trolls, authoritarian apologists, and mods who pick and choose who is bound by their rules based on their ideology is well within the rights of the instance owner.
Yeah, but that's like saying make your own anything. Realistically most people don't want the hassle.
And yet people still do it.
If you need an axe-handle replacing, I'm your man.
Blocking an instance in the user settings just hides communities from that instance in the community search. Defederating hides all communities, posts, comments and user from that instance. It's not implemented the same way, probably on purpose, because the Lemmy devs (who btw are the admins of Lemmy.ml and Lemmygrad.ml) know that half the Fediverse would just block them.
There's simply too much out there for me to manage, and I won't be bothered missing the posts I don't know exist