I’m hopping between instances to try and find a suitable space to live and everywhere I go, I see talk about .world up at the top.

Regardless of personal takes on the situation that sparked this, I do think something’s got to give to decentralize Lemmy from .world. Scrolling through all popular communities is really not too dissimilar from just scrolling the communities in the .world instance alone.

I think that defederation from .world is in order, but from what I can tell, I’m not sure if this instance should be the first domino to fall. I think it would be a good move in the long run to encourage various instances to take part in hosting diverse and vibrant communities and share the load, but I think it would be a bit lonely and confusing at first.

To address the concern about “will this be to the detriment of queer folk?” to be honest I think the solution lies not just in whether we federate with .world or not, but instead with increasing the visibility and accessibility of the fediverse as a whole. Right now, there is not a lot of easy to find or digest documentation about how this whole world works. If we equip the queer community with the resources to embrace and be embraced by this technology, THAT is how we support it.