I've got several identities spread across different regions, interests, and TLDs in preparation for varying levels of interference all the way from defederation to government intervention.
This appears to be the new way forward, and I'm down.
Defederation should only be considered as a last resort. However, based on their comments and behavior, no positive outcomes can be expected.
Pretty self-explanatory. Read the highlighted examples.
We made the decision to preemptively defederate from Hexbear for these reasons. While we understand that not everyone may agree with our decision, we believe it is important to prioritize the best interests of our community.
People are tired of giving air to that crap. At best it's disingenuous, dumb, and dangerous.
Federation is a privilege. The largest Lemmy instance has a right to decide what they are willing to platform and promote. That is their right, just as it is with every other instance on the Fediverse.
For example the mention @shadearg@lemmy.world simply displays @shadearg as a link to https://lemmy.world/u/shadearg, completely obscuring the format of the actual mention.
I suspect that the direct community link may be transformed in a similar way.
That's the way I see it.
I've got several identities spread across different regions, interests, and TLDs in preparation for varying levels of interference all the way from defederation to government intervention.
This appears to be the new way forward, and I'm down.
Edit: grammar