Me too - and in that case, lemm.ee is always my chief recommendation for those who want that, while for the more mainstream normal audience, especially centrists (if any such still exist) in the USA, Discuss.Online or sopuli.xyz, etc.

They would not sell (nor profit) something that people refuse to buy.

We are the ones doing this.

Well, I definitely could have taken more time to phrase that more precisely.:-) They obviously don’t refuse to defederate from “anyone” - as there are 4 blocked instances listed there - but it’s more that they are proud of a diversity of opinion, so that e.g. they do not defederate from Hexbear.net or even from Lemmygrad.ml, which most other instances choose to do. Value judgements entirely aside (although if we were to get into such I would prefer to have divided them into opt-in vs. opt-out), many new users of the Fediverse report having gotten confused about being bullied and how to stop it, and then left (as reported on e.g. r/RedditAlternatives) rather than stick around long enough to find out. So lemm.ee puts a lot of the burden of figuring things out, rather than making those decisions for those new joiners.

Counterpoint: how much of this is our fault? If people are allowed to vote who don’t even know how many branches of government there are, then how can they make effective decisions about the very thing that they know nothing about?

We’ve seen this before, with Brexit. Democracy requires effort to maintain.

Hrm… so then for you, “poorly” is “right”!? 😜

Isn’t ActivityPub extremely network intensive though? If all you wanted was a single user subscribing to a handful of communities then Lemmy would be inexpensive but to pull from a lot of communities I thought people have said that it can cost a bit of money, time, etc. Also defending against attacks such as CSAM.

Maybe make a distinction then between running a “tiny personal instance with only a few niche community subscriptions” vs. a small instance, either with multiple users or even just one person subscribing to many communities, if that cost would start to become more prohibitive?

Yes you can see the comments removed here and the goodbye message here: https://lemmy.world/u/stamets . I don’t know how to see the specific post under discussion - possibly it’s gone forever.😔

This is simply how most (really, probably all) Fediverse software handles removed items. Lemmy and PieFed for certain, and I am not sure about Mbin. Ideally the page would say something like “this used to be a post but it’s gone now…”, but instead it gives simply an error that says 404 and to try again later - like… REALLY???😂

What’s the point of making a goodbye post only to delete it?

I wish he had deleted everything except that. Instances such as Discuss.Online and PieFed.social did not even have time to receive the post before the account is gone now.:-(

Stamets will definitely be missed 😭

Unfortunately you really can’t, not trivially I mean. Also, lemm.ee’s whole schtick is that they don’t defederate from anyone.

• There is a “instance block” in Lemmy, but horribly misnamed as all it does is mute communities but still allows users to troll you from the instance in other communities, such as this one
• Move to PieFed, which allows true blocking of all users from an instance, without needing admin approval
• Stay on Lemmy and switch to either the Sync or Connect app - I’ve not heard of any others that can do this but if someone knows of one please tell me?
• Ask your instance to defederate from them - except for Lemm.ee that’s extremely unlikely to happen
• Switch to another instance that has already done so
• Develop a web browser filter, probably using something like Ublock
• Create your own instance, and then you can deferate anyone you want

Lemmy is fairly authoritian for non-admin end-users, but we use what is provided to us (which is why I’m ecstatically happy with the more fully featured PieFed!:-).

Tbf, they said that the instance doesn’t censor based on political lines, while on the other hand the communities on it can “moderate as they see fit”.

It’s a loophole.

Possibly still worth defederating, but not based solely on the comment you responded to.

I’m a little jealous - no matter what I say about them, their won’t ban me. Probably I would have to post in one of their communities to make that happen, except I can’t be arsed to bother with it:-).

Depends - what is their half-life? If it’s less than the rate of eye blinking, then we aren’t even keeping up a stable population!

Sadly no time lately:-(

Gotta keep the Lemmites fed!

And now you know what’s next right? (Taylor Swift’s jet of course!)

Agreed, agreed, and agreed.:-)

For the longest time there was no app for Mbin, which some people seem to deem necessary (I have no idea why? Firefox is an “app”:-). There is now Interstellar for it, but it lost momentum and not many use it (Mbin I mean, though surely even only a subset of Mbin users also use Interstellar).

I for one have no need of Mastodon, and don’t really like the web UI of Mbin (even though moving to the Threadiverse from Reddit, my first instance was Kbin.social). I much prefer PieFed:-).

PieFed is already aware and makes available the complete list of where all the cross-posts are, but if the authors of such could be listed out specifically (without needing to click to see), it may help encourage posting more often?

Mbin does this already.