Eh, if it were easier to block an instance as a user, I'd be 100% with you instead of 95%.

There are instances that are batshit crazy. Since blocking an instance as a user just ain't possible yet, I can see why defederation before trouble gets going is useful. Once the nasty side of the internet gets snowballing, it's much harder to manage.

Troll, or serious extremist, some things are just cancerous.

People can block communities right? That might make more sense than just severing connections to other servers completely?

O no, the platform is operating exactly as intended.

So you would prefer massive dictators with a profit motive instead? Because that's the alternative you are advocating for.

The entire point of federation as a tool of decentralisation is to address the issue of Spez, Musk, Zuckerberg and so on. Massive corporate dictators of the internet.

The solution is to split up the massive dictators into lots and lots of smaller ones, who can federate with who they want to in order to make a bigger space, and ultimately provide you with the choice of which approach you like better. It ultimatley allows all of these spaces to shut out corporate advertising as well because if McDonalds ever makes a fucking instance everyone will defederate that shit to get away from the advertising immediately.

If you like the mega dictators better. Reddit is over there. I assume you do not, because that's why you left it.

This is why I'm happy to be on my own private instance and part of what really turned me on to Lemmy. It's trivial to spin up your own instance if you're technically inclined. You have complete control over what you see and aren't subject to some power hungry admin on some server like Beehaw. That's what makes the fediverse so great imo

People in this thread look like they never mada a mistake doing something for the first time.

I mean 90% of this community is now Redditors so are you really surprised with the attitude?

Sir this is memes

Any link to that thread? I'm out of the loop

One person created the_donald over there and people are getting butthurt.

No no, nothing happened. It was all angry discussion by crowds who didn't know anything. The problems were solved very fast and no one ended up unhappy except for the troll.

If I'm actively subscribed do I still get the content [...]?

No, the whole point of defed is that your home instance stops "listening" to the updates of the defederated instance. So you'd stop getting updates from any community hosted on @sh.itjust.works period.