There are some instances which can't handle the load of communities being pulled into them, since it does eat up a lot of storage. It would be good if there were a mode that allows federating an instance's communities outward without pulling in any from other instances.
Probably wouldn't be well received since for them it's individual people, not communities which you follow. Would be considered botting their profiles. It's different with communities though.
Just something of note, the program has options to not federate NSFW content in its settings, so it'll ignore communities and instances marked as such.
I don't know why you feel entitled to be tagged by him or feel entitled to justification from him but you aren't. You made repeated death threats towards him. Most people would've just blocked you for that, which I admit is not a great solution since it makes you invisible to them, and therefore less likely to be reported for something like this.
Dude you do not need to defend or justify yourself to this person, the best thing to do is just ignore them, or report them as harassment and a troll.
Seriously it's best to just not respond to these types of people, responding only makes them feel more justified.
Didn't Mali order a recall of all ml domains a while back due to an incident where military emails being sent to .mil were accidentally sent to .ml domains instead.
I had a similar scary situation like that before where the phone number linked to the account wasn't mine anymore. Luckily I was able to get back because I was still logged in on another computer and it hadn't kicked me out yet, I was able to go to account settings and remove the phone number, then google let me log into the account again. Had I been kicked out of the account, I would've lost it for sure.
I'm not really sure about lemmy.zip. I've browsed it a little bit in the past and it seems like an okay instance. It does have a pretty short block list which, also could pose issues for new users should they stumble into hexbear or grad folks.
However the biggest problem I've faced is that since it's a .zip domain and my ISP seems to be doing something funny with them, I can't actually connect with the server unless I'm on cellular, a VPN, or Tor.
I've tried changing DNS settings and even setting up DoH but it doesn't really seem to be helping. It only connects to the site when I'm not on my home network, or on a VPN or Tor.
It's possible that my scenario might be an edge case, and other isps may not actually be blocking zip domains. Though if it is happening with others, that could be a really frustrating problem for somebody facing it since the solution isn't obvious (it just looks like there's no connection).
There may be other problems with the instance that I haven't considered, like Federation issues or culture. The biggest and most glaring problem though is the connectivity issue, which probably isn't universal, but has severely limited me from checking them out.
Sorry if I caused confusion, when I said "freeze peach trolls" I didn't necessarily mean that lemm.ee was a free speech instance or that I thought it was. I was more so talking about the people who complain about defederation in comment sections on Lemmy and on Reddit, and how most of them are bellyaching and upset that objectionable content and servers are censored.
I'm glad to hear that there is a strict moderation policy over on lemm.ee, even if you don't use defederation as part of moderation.
I don't think it's anywhere near as big of an issue as people try and make it out to be. Most of the widely defenerated instances are spam and trolls. There are a couple of legit ones from feudes, but for the most part going for a low-defederation or no-defederation instance is probably more trouble than it is a benefit.
Since it'll expose those new users to things that might very well scare them away.
I actually personally wouldn't recommend it for new users specifically because of the third one.
I know that lots of 'freeze peach' trolls love to complain about defederation. The thing is though the majority of the defederations are actually beneficial to new users who may be scared or unnerved by some of the shit that comes out of those blocked instances.
I think that it's important for us to recognize that the stigma against defederation, is largely because of trolls who have to resort to sign ups on our servers to spread their messages here. There really aren't a lot of arbitrary defederations, it's mostly hate speech in spam. The stigma doesn't really have the merit that it might seem.
Additionally I would also not really recommend lemm.ee, for brand new users, on the count of their very loose moderation policy instance wide. Since that can create some scary and unpleasant situations that may be unnerving to normies.
Another reason is that the image upload size is, unreasonably tiny on lemm.ee, and they limit your ability to do uploads for a long time. Something that will likely be very annoying to people who sign up there since they won't be able to set up their account with a picture, and even when they can it will be ridiculously tiny. It can be really annoying, especially to new users when things don't just work.
Probably why, among other reasons, the idea of naming an instance shit just works, was even a thing. And even though you don't like it because of the name I would still recommend it because they have insanely good and insanely effective moderation. Despite being one of the few instances that doesn't ask people to beg or play 20 questions on signup.
They don't actually care about life, they just don't want women to have control over their bodies.