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lemmy.ca has ~~defederated~~ [blocked the community] from lululemmy.com (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) by otter@lemmy.ca to c/main@lemmy.ca

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A few months ago, we posted a discussion thread about lemmit.online, which resulted in the decision to defederate from it:

https://lemmy.ca/post/38374922

The reasons were given as follows:

It feels actively harmful to lemmy, since so many of the posts it brings over are questions that the original poster will never see. It encourages a conversation that will never happen, so if someone does reply they’re going to feel disengaged.

The bot rarely gets any upvotes or engagement, and I suspect a majority of people (like myself) have just blocked it.

These reasons also apply to lululemmy.com, and so we just defederated from it as well. Same as before, if you were using it and miss it, let us know and we can reconsider.

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[–] otter@lemmy.ca 2 points 20 hours ago

That seems reasonable. While I don't expect those other communities to have much traffic, this achieves the same outcome without a full defederation.

We've refederated with them, blocked that community, and updated this post. Thank you for the feedback!