macisrJul 5, 2023

If Lemmy and Mastodon continues to get popular, we will eventually get Instances wars.

https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/post/598680

If Lemmy and Mastodon continues to get popular, we will eventually get Instances wars. - FMHY

If the descentralization of social networks continue, we will have to prepare for the eventual rise of the instances wars, where people will start to fight about which instance is better and which one is weird to be in and so on, but that’s for the future of us all.

Show threadGod
It has already started :) I’d say around 60% of major instances block exploding-heads, burggit and/or lemmygrad. Lemmygrad and EH in turn defederate a shitton of instances as well due to ideological reasons. Most “civility” or “law” related instances block piracy instances. The dbzer0 piracy instance blocks anything seen as too right-wingy cuz the owner is an anarchocommunist or something. LGBT instances are blocking & promoting for other instances to block instances that aren’t too friendly to LGBT or are simply not moderating or even promoting homophobia & related topics. I actually made a tool called federation-checker.vercel.app/ that checks where an instance stands in the federation “war”, so I know what instances to register onto if I wanna see some content that has been blocked by the instances I’m on.
Jul 6, 2023 at 1:31amWeb
Show threadgivesomefucksJul 6, 2023

Tldr:

Bigots are getting shunned, and cops are ignoring crime

Show threadGodJul 6, 2023
Way to completely misread I guess. Bigots are defederating, cops are defederating, pedestrians are defederating, ants are defederating. Everyone and their mom is shunning and getting shunned except like a tiny couple kinda major instances and some of the smaller one that just don’t care and don’t cause any waves.
Show threadskierraJul 6, 2023
Thanks God.
Show threadicogniitoJul 6, 2023
The fact that things get divided up by the community itself is a positive, not a negative. The “major” network of instances don’t have to put up with extreme things on any end of the spectrum while those who do want to take part in that get their own bubble and won’t have to cry about censorship.