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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by macisr@lemmy.fmhy.ml to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

If the descentralization of social networks continue, we will have to prepare for the eventual rise of the instances wars, where people will start to fight about which instance is better and which one is weird to be in and so on, but that's for the future of us all.

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[-] god@lemmy.fmhy.ml 26 points 1 year ago

It has already started :) I'd say around 60% of major instances block exploding-heads, burggit and/or lemmygrad. Lemmygrad and EH in turn defederate a shitton of instances as well due to ideological reasons. Most "civility" or "law" related instances block piracy instances. The dbzer0 piracy instance blocks anything seen as too right-wingy cuz the owner is an anarchocommunist or something. LGBT instances are blocking & promoting for other instances to block instances that aren't too friendly to LGBT or are simply not moderating or even promoting homophobia & related topics. I actually made a tool called federation-checker.vercel.app/ that checks where an instance stands in the federation "war", so I know what instances to register onto if I wanna see some content that has been blocked by the instances I'm on.

[-] axus@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

federation-checker.vercel.app

That is pretty cool, but uhh maybe not user friendly. I entered "lemm.ee" and it says "Not a lemmy instance".

It would be cool if it could pre-enter the HTTP referrer, then typing might not even be needed.

[-] cestvrai@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

lemm.ee crew represent ✊

[-] god@lemmy.fmhy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

It's a buggy thing lol. I made it very fast. I am very busy nowadays. I can't bother to edit it much. I would appreciate PRs. My github is lemmygod. If you have any knowhow, any help is extremely welcome in these days of dayjob exhaustion. :)

[-] god@lemmy.fmhy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

I know that the url part is fucked. I did it fast and I knew what would happen as I coded it. I 100% know it sucks ass lol. It is what it is until I get help or time to fix it.

[-] skierra@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago
[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Tldr:

Bigots are getting shunned, and cops are ignoring crime

[-] god@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Way to completely misread I guess. Bigots are defederating, cops are defederating, pedestrians are defederating, ants are defederating. Everyone and their mom is shunning and getting shunned except like a tiny couple kinda major instances and some of the smaller one that just don't care and don't cause any waves. Some of it is ideological. Some of it is personal. Some of it is prejudice. Some of it is about URLs or simple disagreements.

[-] icogniito@vlemmy.net 2 points 1 year ago

The fact that things get divided up by the community itself is a positive, not a negative. The "major" network of instances don't have to put up with extreme things on any end of the spectrum while those who do want to take part in that get their own bubble and won't have to cry about censorship.

[-] Lumun@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

Hey, that's a really cool tool! Thanks for creating and sharing it!

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip -1 points 1 year ago

It'd be cool if you could make a graph analyzer with this. It'd be a little more complicated, but it may be useful for choosing an instance.

[-] god@lemmy.fmhy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Explain. Like basically order by who has defederated the most and stuff like that? I did wanna add how many users are blocked by each instance and by how many users they are blocked but I forgot and am too busy to even edit the code anymore. Just worked 12 hours today and I'm still so far from completion.

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 year ago

Have each instance be a node on a graph, linked to all other nodes it's federated with. Basically a way to view federation islands.

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