this post was submitted on 14 Aug 2023
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Was there any vote or announcement about this on lemmy.ca? Or are we hearing after the fact, and on another instance, that our instance has contentiously and quietly defederated from 2 other instances?
No we dropped the ball on this one, we should have posted right away.
Lemmy.ml has been defederated for a long time.
https://lemmy.ca/post/3326347
Thanks, I appreciate the post and response!
I understand that defederating is part of running an instance and that decisions are not always clear cut. If I were an admin, I'd report newly defederated instances in a post or something. It doesn't seem like appreciably more work than what being an admin already entails (which must be a lot!) and makes things transparent. I'm here in the Fediverse because I don't like what's going on on the rest of the big tech internet, and I want to get involved in an alternate model. Hearing that a politically aligned instance was silently defederated on .ca reminds me of what I am hoping to distance myself from online versus find more of now. Ditto for the the downvotes without replies. That said, other commenters have helped me see site maintenance as opposed to political orientation reasons that could motivate defederation. On reflection, I think I want to get involved in an expressly curated (in a way that I approve of) and/or pretty transparent Fediverse environment
The great thing about the fediverse is that no one can stop you from participating in those instances. You can create local accounts as I have done on several instances. The mobile clients let you switch easily between accounts on different instances
I agree! I strongly believe we should be transparent with actions such as defederation.