Not federated Lemmy instances? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by IlIllIIIllIlIlIIlI@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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Do you know any Lemmy instances not federated with other ones, living by themselves? Do you know any interesting or creative use case for a not federated instance?

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[-] Diva@lemmy.ml 24 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I believe they forked from Lemmy before federation existed close to 4 years ago, added things like custom emojis and then only re-merged after federation was implemented then turned it on.

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago

Ah, that explains why their custom emojis don't render correctly anywhere else. I wish that piece of code would get merged into the main version so it'd be less annoying.

[-] Diva@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

I wish they would merge in the pronoun support too, one of the better hexbear features imo.

[-] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 months ago

I'm not a fan of forced pronoun badges as an Agender person. Allowing people to have pronoun badges is good but only if it is optional. When it isn't it creates a dilemma where a person has to choose between outing themself, or lying if they don't want to out themselves.

As it is though, their implementation of it simply uses (or rather commandeers) the display-name feature Lemmy has, so in a way we already do have an optional implementation of it for people who want it. It's just not mandated. The way they did it was to replace display names with Pronoun tags and have them be mandatory.

[-] Diva@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

The display names option does limit your actual name length combined with pronouns, hexbear it's a separate field. I do appreciate the arguments against having it mandatory/integrated into the main lemmy. Here's the github post about it, the lemmy.ml mods agree with your line.

That said, on hexbear I see plenty of people keep none/use name and they've also have specifically agender ones like null/void, undecided, any.