What can I say? If people can't accept that other people might have different opinions and worldview, it's not people I think I'd miss the opportunity to interact with. So I don't really lament those who block my home instance.

To address your surprise; it seems that the majority of new people coming to the Lemmyverse are reasonable and thinking people.

I'm pretty sure that means that if a Beehaw user is blocked from Lemmy.world, they can still comment on posts federated from Lemmy.world to Beehaw. In the Beehaw duplicate community. But when content from the specific user is sent back to Lemmy.world, the instance refuse to accept the comment either due to the individual being banned from the controlling community on Lemmy.world or from the instance as a whole.

At least that's how it seemed to work in late 2022 when I administered my own instance and people were intensely ban and block happy on the instance level.

But isn't it easy to test? I'll make a community on my home instance and you subscribe to it so it's federated to Lemmy.world and then you simply remove the content from Lemmy.world, yes?

I don't find this any more dramatic than sh.itjust.works blocking lemmygrad.ml lol

Signups on lemmy.world worked as late as a few hours ago at least. Try again in a bit?

That's a dangerous game to play when joining a community largely comprised of people who already left reddit, some of them over a decade ago. 😂

iron fisted authoritarian regime with no freedoms at all

Tell you hwat, I think it's sad how many people doesn't see how close the west is to that description. Like come on, have the last few years not shown you that there are no freedoms in most western countries - Only temporary permissions?

Users are unable to block whole instances

Much needed.

Keep in mind Lemmy is version 0 point 17. Blocking individual communities has seemingly been prioritized and I agree. I've not seen a single instance exclusively filled with communities I've felt I needed avoid, but every single instance has a few communities I'd want to block if it got federated to my home server.

There is no possibility to migrate or backup your subscribed/favorited stuff or even move it to another instance

Also much needed.

Keep in mind Lemmy is vers... Well, you know how it goes. I'm somewhat expecting both instance blocking and user migration to be sorted out down the line or by forks.

Like reddit, it's by design. That's the price we pay for participating in a consensus-driven frontpage aggregator that's divided by interests/politics/ideologies etc..

My stance is leave them alone to talk shit about me so I'm left alone to talk shit about them. Block and move on if I find the person disruptive, report them if they break server rules. And then block them and move on.

In total I think I've blocked more people than I've downvoted on Lemmy.

Get a decent sized screen and the small column in the middle of your screen turns into a large column in the middle of the screen.

Grandpa also tipped me once that you can increase the desktop DPI or buy a magnifying glass incase the letters are too small.

Lemmy is created by what many describes as "tankies", fundamentalist communists. The lead devs are, in my impression generally supportive of the Chinese government. They run their own instances, dedicated to their own world view and interests. I don't have the slightest problem with that.

Hopefully due to a lack of foresight their instance was presented as a flagship instance on the official landing page and other places, effectively making it the representative for Lemmy for a long time. With their moderation practices, they in large parts drove away what I consider reasonable users regardless of personal ideology.

This created an monolithic instance that dwarfed every single instance besides one; the other dev-run instance which seems like a containment instance for those too fundamentalist to stay on the "main" server. For a large part Lemmy was a downright nasty monoculture that would harass even lead developers for daring to interact with code-contributing users on instances deemed "problematic".

With a very generous blocking practice, these monolithic instance basically shut out anybody not agreeing with them from the majority of content - including non-political. This in turn gave other instances less of a reason reason to stay on the Lemmyverse which reinforced the monoculture.

The devs did take steps to rectify this problem: they offered a year of free Lemmy hosting for anybody willing to admin a general purpose instance, recruited other general purpose instances to promote on join-lemmy.org. I respect that. But at that time it seemed too late to change the direction. When I realized the bad reputation Lemmy as a project had amongst some of the larger fediverse influencers, I realized that Lemmy would not be viable until it got a massive and sudden influx of new users to shake up the overall federated lemmy community. And now here we are!

Mastodon caches images from remote instances, Lemmy doesn't. It links, which has it's own issues (images disappearing from remote posts if the instance goes down). Everybody I've seen complaining about storage space have been open Lemmy instances with loads of users potentially uploading images to the pictrs sub-system. There's even been requests to limit image storage for individual users.

If you're thinking of using the YunoHost version of Lemmy, be aware that the pictrs subsystem is removed due to technical issues, I would absolutely recommend using the ansible install. But that might defeat the purpose of easy self-hosting for most YunoHost users...

From a non-technical aspect, the biggest issue (or at least used to be) on Lemmy was the ideological attacks and isolation by the fascist core community of any non-conforming instance. That had a chokehold on the lemmyverse to the point I saw no point running a Lemmy instance unless I self-censored my sometimes negative opinions of the Chinese government. Seeing the core developers being willing to hold back their own project was the biggest surprise when self-hosting Lemmy.

The reddit blackout was as effective as turning off the lights at night.

Well, it's a new day now and the users will be back - Just like they promised. 🐕