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I've been pretty inactive on here for the last few months and I see that things have moved to lemmy and there's federating and defederating and the fediverse (just assumed this was a joke about 
) I feel dumb and I don't know what any of its means. Instances, controversies etc.
Can someone please give me a tldr or point me to a thread explaining the timeline and key information? Thank you!
every instance is basically like it's own reddit. Lots of duplicate "sublemmys" between all the different instances.
The controversy is that it let some really fucking stupid people post here, but that's mostly been locked down. Wreckers still show up but theyre banned in a hour.
Now that I have spent more time on here today, I have noticed an increase in lib-ing. Kind of disappointing tbh
just be wary of anyone with an @ in there name, especially if its not @lemmygrad. It really hasnt been too bad.
Glad to hear it!
We voted to federate using an allow list, meaning we have to individually add instances to federate with
-lemmy.world mods preemptively defederated with us before we could add them, a move that was controversial among their userbase
-lemmygrad (a ML instance) and lemmy.ml (leftist run instance with a lib userbase), as well as some small instances federated with us largely without incident.
-With lemm.ee, a big lib instance, there was quite a bit of controversy over federation on their end, and we got in a spat with the admin over his lib-brained anti-communism, but he appears to have a genuine ideological commitment to federation. And things have mostly settled down
-blahaj.zone was one people were interested in, as it's branded as a trans instance. Turns out however that the userbase hates "tankies," the admin is extremely lib, and one of the mod of the 196 subreddit lifeboat comm leaked CARCOSA's DMs. They had like three metathreads up whining about us, but we defended first
-the latest was shitjustworks. They were a bunch of chuds, and after much dunking we pulled the plug and defedded from them
Thanks this is a good summary.
This was always a lemmy instance. It was recently made compatible with other lemmy instances to allow federation.