snowe was running into issues before getting other frontends to run but if that gets sorted out we can look into adding some alternative frontends (and we'll have to sort it out eventually to get a beta version of pangora up before it becomes the default UI)
they do an allowlist rather than a blocklist (defederate with everyone by default, explicitly allow certain ones). the two were removed from their allowlist
They defederated from both programming.dev and sh.itjust.works recently since they held a vote and they had enough upvotes to do so. Reasoning for programming.dev was due to people in our instance coming in there with supposedly bad takes but I feel like thats a major overreaction to block an entire instance of people with different views (with the different views appearing due to it not being political at all inside the instance) due to a couple people going in there instead of just moderating the individual users. The message to defederate from us also only has 13 upvotes and was both programming.dev and sh.itjust.works which I feel isnt really a majority opinion of their instance if they want one since it confounds the upvotes of two different instances and is a relatively low amount for their monthly active users
Theoretical scenario so in the future we can't be hit by a giant wave of DMCA takedown requests for things we don't manage. We're already a relatively small team and can't add the legal workload of a bunch of other sites. (If an instance complies with it it lessens the work we have to do since then the deletes get federated over) If it becomes a problem with some other instances we can purge their communities or defederate at worst case if its instance wide if they don't want to manage it but burggit explicitly says in their instance description DMCA ignored while others dont
DMCA isnt just piracy, its copyrighted content. There are piracy communities that discuss piracy but dont provide links to the actual content (if theres some that do that link me them and ill deal with them).
Its a gray area in the US (with certain states banning it themselves) and things like the PROTECT Act existing (which is added on to the miller test, it has more than just that to follow) and due to that I would rather err on the side of caution
For a lot of those communities there are alternate communities in other instances (e.g. lemmy.world has a bigger touhou community) or separate accounts can be made
Currently the process has been to request it in meta since I didnt think it would be common enough to flood out other meta posts and since its meta about the instance, ill check out burggit and report back with what will happen to it (whether that be defederation, purging specific communities, or nothing)
Update: I have defederated from burggit for two main reasons
They ignore DMCA requests and dont follow it. We get a copy of all of their posts due to how federation works and since this rule is instance wide it can easily apply to a new community in the future if we purge current ones. We dont have the manpower to handle other instances continually breaking the law and then us needing to deal with that with takedowns
pornographic content illegal in the us, same reason as above
Yeah lemmy has issues with federating things a lot of times
The moderator federation at least should show you eventually. Tried hitting appoint as mod to see if I can get it done from here but it just loads forever. Worst case an account in that instance can be used to mod or that account can try modding your p.d account
In the settings all languages are allowed due to issues with language federation from mastodon and kbin. Its up to the mods what languages they allow. (Majority will be English but allows for some communities that are two if theres some technology where official info is given in another language or for things like c/programming but in another language (naturally hidden from people who don't have that set as their language))
I deleted that german post since its just a stream ad
Ah yeah its just emojis, I tend to use the two terms interchangeably (emote is typically used to describe making your character show an action or emotion in games like dance, flex, etc. in mmos, or as a short form for emoticon)
Yeah also have that planned as one of the first things I put in since we're a coding site, forgot to put it on the list. Shouldn't be that bad since there's libraries for it
Yeah should be fine, dont think any changes made are going to severely overhaul the base structure so everything will be able to merge in (and if it does change then makes sense to branch off at that point)
Yeah it'll be in a github repo. Currently trying to brainstorm a name and then I'll share the repo publicly
Currently the stance for this instance is defederation as a last resort so everyone can participate in the coding chats. If a community on a connected instance breaks our rules the community will be removed from the instance and things such as politics communities will be hidden from the all feed once we can get that coded in since lemmy itself isnt capable of doing it very well yet (its a feature but only through the backend and painful to do in bulk)
A bunch of hexbear communities fall into the hidden in the all feed category so wont show up to people unless they explicitly look for it by searching and subscribing. Should be pushed out once I can dedicate time to coding it in and ill announce in this community when it has
Yeah this is the best spot atm in the instance, its a catchall community for programming things in the instance. The ios dev community is currently going through the community request process and then this can be crossposted into there
This was a cross post rather than a direct post to the community so it acts the same as if its posted on two different communities here like a lemmy cross post (with different threads based on the community the post is on)
If someone on mastodon commented on this version of the thread their comment would show up here
snowe was running into issues before getting other frontends to run but if that gets sorted out we can look into adding some alternative frontends (and we'll have to sort it out eventually to get a beta version of pangora up before it becomes the default UI)