MentalEdge

MentalEdge, 2 years ago

I'm really liking number 3, as well. Hello PrivateNoob!

MentalEdge, 2 years ago

Yep. I told a friend of mine "the federation just works, its the user interface and apps that need work".

Mastodon is in a really good place nowadays where you don't even notice you're browsing across multiple instances. Lemmy is pretty close, too, as long as people know to use relative links and the instance you're on is pretty well federated already so you don't get too many 404 from trying to open places your instance doesn't know about yet.

MentalEdge, 2 years ago

Yeah, as it gets more and more interconnected, all the links and UI start working more and more. Hopefully soon, lemmy will get the feature of just automatically converting community names in the !name@instan.ce format into working links, the way writing r/subreddit or u/user did on reddit.

A Friendica user told me in a comment that they already have that.

MentalEdge, 2 years ago

Instances aren't really blocking others, they're defederating. That means not communicating with certain url's. That's something you can accomplish on a system level, even if the "feature" isn't in the application you are running. (lemmy/kbin)

The devs didn't "give" this ability to instance admins, it was always there.

As for users being able to block instances, I agree. It should be a feature. For now, you can still get there the long way round, by blocking every community on a given instance.

But the vitriol in your wording is entirely unwarranted.