I just wanted to say that I like this instance. It feels calm, cool, and collected. There is no BS happening here. From what I can see, no one has defederated from us and we have not defederated from anyone else. The rules for the Instance look reasonable. Just wanted to say thanks to everyone for keeping it nice here :-).

    • eviltoast admin@eviltoast.orgM
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      Nope, we haven’t defederated from anyone (instances or communities), and as far as I know noone has defederated from us either.

      https://eviltoast.org/instances would show blocked instances if there are any, but I’m not sure if there’s a public page somewhere that would show blocked/banned communities.

      There’s also this tool, but I don’t know how accurate it is:

      https://fba.ryona.agency/?domain=eviltoast.org vs https://fba.ryona.agency/?domain=lemmy.world as an example

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        Awesome. Idk why everyone seems to have so much trouble finding an instance that isn’t caught up in any defederation bullshit. Aren’t there hundreds of small instances?

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            Does the liability page actually help with any legal issues? I suppose it would, right? It’s basically agreeing to terms of use for our “product”

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              I’m hoping it will in a “show of good faith” type of way if nothing else, but I don’t know how much it truly holds up.

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                Got it. I’m not sure i understand why lemmy.world defederated from the piracy community. It’s hosted on another instance. Is it because a copy of it stays on lemmy world? I just don’t get it lol

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          There are, but I think people are still leaning towards the bigger instances by default. Probably part of existing users on those instances recruiting more people and suggesting to use the same instance instead of finding a different one. A lot of reddit threads were linking directly to lemmy.world for example.

          I saw some talk about lemmy clients implementing some sort of random sign-up where it puts new users on random instances, or at least shows a list of instances they could choose from. I’m not sure if that’s the solution, but it’d be an improvement imo.

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            Yea that would definitely help. Also I think there needs to be a better explanation for defederation and exactly what that means. I still find that pretty confusing in terms of exactly who can see/participate with what.