• sibloure@beehaw.org
    27·
    2 years ago

    Wow. I didn’t realize beehaw has over 380 instances blocked! Now I feel like I’m missing out on the Lemmy fediverse.

    • 1993_toyota_camry@beehaw.org
      13·
      2 years ago

      I don’t think you’re missing out on much. Most aren’t even lemmy instances.

      I received this reply about this from Alyaza:

      this is because we started using a heavily curated blocklist for the worst mastodon instances (they can interoperate with us). we didn’t expect any trouble from any of them, but any instance in the new batch of banned instances can be safely assumed to be quite bad and it’s better to be proactive than not.

      link https://beehaw.org/comment/176651

      edit:

      checking into a few of the listed blocks now… most of them don’t seem to be operating anymore.

      • nooneescapesthelaw@lemmy.ml
        4·
        2 years ago

        Still I’d like to have a choice in the matter lemmy.ml unfortunately also has a lot of blocked instances, and alot of the other instances are overloaded right now. I’ll probably wait a week or so until this craze blows over and sign up w/ a newer and smaller instance

        • 1993_toyota_camry@beehaw.org
          4·
          2 years ago

          For sure, if you want the raw unadulterated experience of the fediverse, that’s definitely the right choice.

          Personally, I’m not looking to engage with the type of people who flock to ‘uncensored’ spaces, so I appreciate the admins filtering them out.

    • UnpopularBrainRot@lemmy.world
      91·
      2 years ago

      That’s the reason I didn’t join there, they try to be this wholesome safespace with heavy moderation and it’s just not my vibe.

      I prefer minimal policing, I don’t mind seeing opposing views even if I think they are stupid, I can just scroll pass it and ignore.

      • Ko'vari@lemmy.ml
        1·
        2 years ago

        I think a lot of it comes down to people who want to have a like minded experience; which can be good and bad. It essentially enforces to them that they’re in the right regardless without seeing the big picture. And that can be dangerous.

    • Monkeytennis@beehaw.org
      6·
      2 years ago

      Shame the instances list doesn’t include reason for blocking. Looking at the names most seem obvious (and I don’t feel like I’m missing out on those) but there must be some grey areas.

      • stankmut@lemmy.world
        4·
        2 years ago

        Having a reason listed would be nice. I picked one off the list that I couldn’t figure out from the name alone why it would be banned and decided to take a look and see why. I was apprehensive. What horrors was I about to see?

        Couldn’t figure out why it was banned from the content alone. I looked it up and found a website that has their defederated instances list and the reasons. I didn’t see anything that matched the reason given, but I didn’t care enough to keep digging further.

        I think the list is shared among a few instances.

      • suth@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 years ago

        Is there any chance instances will start (or already are) blocking other instances based on instances they’re linked to? Similar to the way some subreddits would automatically ban users for participation in other subs, it could further enforce echo chambers. If Lemmy.world is a little more open, I’d hate for it to get blocked by somewhere like Beehaw just for that.