Lemmy.world did defederate from exploding-heads, but never defederated from hilariouschaos as far as I know. When hilariouschaos appeared the admin team discussed it and decided to take a wait-and-see approach. First, some of the more problematic exploding-heads users seemed to be gone. Second, by that time Lemmy had more blocking options for users to curate their own feeds, so instance-level defederation seemed less urgent.

We will discuss it again. Personally, it’s been a while since I have peeked over the fence to see what they’re up to over there.

The headline and article are trying really hard to emphasize the mask angle of the story.

He was walking down Spindle Road, a residential street of tidy lawns and single-family homes in Hicksville, wearing dark clothes and a ski mask in August, the county police said in a statement.

… Mr. Castillo “was on the street corner, and somebody called in a suspicious person.”

When police officers arrived, they frisked Mr. Castillo and discovered a 14-inch knife in the waistband of his pants, the department said in a statement on Tuesday.

I expect he would have been stopped, searched, arrested, and charged the same regardless of any mask law.

At this point I think I’ll leave those posts deleted. OP changed the post titles before deleting, then subsequently deleted their account and all comments, so the discussions in those posts are full of holes.

I only see Blaze in the modlog, and that user has been unbanned. If you are aware of other users that are somehow not in the modlog then let me know.

Yes, Blaze has been unbanned from the community.

It’s in the “Blocked Instances” section, where it should be.

sh.itjust.works explicitly blocks Threads. They held a vote among the local users: https://sh.itjust.works/post/11308397

It is odd that threads.net appears on our instances page, while the same is not true for other Lemmy instances which have not blocked Threads. Lemmy.world is federated with Threads by default simply because it is not on our instance block list. I do not believe our instance has done anything special to force a link with Threads. I mentioned it in our admin chat and will update this post if I learn anything.

However, even with threads.net listed on our instances page, Threads does not seem to work with Lemmy. I am able to search and view Mastodon user profiles from lemmy.world, but it does not work for any of the Threads test profiles.

Spoiler alert: the drain is just a straight pipe to a bucket below the counter.

I empathize with your situation. I’m in the same boat. Even with hundreds of subscribers, if everyone’s lurking then the community gets stale and withers. Becoming a one-person content machine isn’t sustainable.

Though on a brighter note, with this post you just gained a subscriber to your community. Browsing through it reminded me of how fun geocaching was. I just dusted off my old geocaching.com account from a decade ago. I’ll have to take my kids out and see what we can find!

Dropping a comment here so I can switch my moderator credentials over to my lemmy.world alt. I have been using an account on sh.itjust.works, which means I cannot see reports generated on a lemmy.world community. (It’s a known Lemmy bug.)