• No server operator needs to federate with you.
  • No server operator needs to tolerate things they don’t want on their instance.
  • No user of an instance needs to personally curate their own extensive never ending blocklist of users and channels they don’t want to see.

Quit your pseudo-intellectual whining and choose what instance(s) work for you. If you think regularly interacting with shit content somehow helps you stay out of an echo chamber then go ahead and make a second account on those garbage instances full of hateful people. Then you can read both the decent servers and the trash ones and be the fedora wearing ackshually right fair and balanced uber nerd you always wanted to be.

Edit: The huge number of upvotes on this post compared to the low numbers on the whiney imposers’ posts is proof of exactly where this community places its priorities.

  • aski3252English
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    1 year ago

    There needs to be some clear guidance on this for newbies.

    This is always tricky because until now, lemmy was used by tech enthusiasts who are familiar with the concept. And I don’t think the main page, join-lemmy.org does attempt to explain the concept. It even changes up the order of instances to try to balance out the load.

    The problem is that it is inevitably complicated for non-techies who have never heard of federated services. And people don’t really want to learn new tech stuff, they want an alternative to their reddit and are excited to check it out, so most will not spend potentially hours to understand the underlying concept.