"I must preserve my echo chamber!"

Why would someone who doesn't like blocking and de-federation like "federated platforms"?

free speech also applies to lemmy servers. If the server doesn't agree with most of what's on your server, they can and should have the option to not associate with your server at all. This honestly sounds like a shit take elon would have made.

I defederated lemmy.world because I don't feel like hosting and re transmitting US propaganda.

lemmy world admins cracking down on posts they don't like with no accountability and arbitrarily changing their ToS after the fact to cover for it, but somehow the entirety of the factionalist weirdos who cling to the idea of a corpo-friendly Reddit clone are laying the blame on... other instances?

I think it depends on what you disagree with. If one is promoting going after our neighbors, hunting them down and killing them? Yeah, defederate. If another is Meta trying to take over the federation. Yeah, I vote defederate. If one thinks Hawaiian pizza is a travesty and the other doesn't, hold your horses.

Some places suck.

Some places suck, by design.

Reducing criticism of systemic problems to "just because you disagree" is dishonest... and indicative.

When Musk took over Twitter he allowed violent and extremist views to flood it without moderation.

That's the sort of community Lemmy would be if we didn't have the tools needed to keep it clean of harmful ideologies.

I tried like 4 different lemmy instances before settling on lemm.ee because it hasn't defederated from the socialists or "tankies". So I can participate.

This defederation fracturing lemmy really speaks to both self-censorship of allowable ideologies and also bad quality of admins and mods several servers.

If lemmy can't somehow federate communities separately from instances I don't see lemmy thriving.

let people defederate idgaf

yep, this is a lemmy.ml post alright

In aggregate; 5 instances, less than 5 communities, and more than 69, nice, blocked users.

I don't mess around. I don't hesitate to block people who argue needlessly, make my experience less informational or less entertaining, troll, or disregard arguments made in foundational logic to push a point of view or 'win the argument'. Similarly my instance ignores downvotes and does not display them; as with most platforms which behave similarly to reddit; they simply do not work outside of your personal, local account, local instance, user-sorting context.