Still worth while to do so, the trick is you need to defederate problematic instances. Not hide them, fully defederate. That stops problematic instances and communties from affecting your userbase. There's many great Lemmy servers and communties out there. Just because a few of them aren't great doesn't mean you should dismiss all of them.
Ok good point, it is a pretty hacky solution.
What happens if you enable the instance and add a bot account for it but ban the bot account it is using (possibly silently through DB query so it doesn't appear in modlog) would lemmy-federate immediately change the instance status to disabled imediately or would it still continue to allow it to work but just give errors when trying to federate external communities to here?
So a flat-earther who was a globe-earther at the same time? Wild
Would there be? Not too many people go all the way to the south pole, most who do are scientists. Not the likely type to do graffiti.
It seems to be getting updates again checking the github, and the creator still runs a Lemmy instance, so I imagine until sublinks comes out (which it probably won't for a while) it'll still continue supporting Lemmy.
Would there be a way to enable it but prevent the local version that retrieves communities from being able to do that, so we could share our communities with other servers without getting the servers from all other instances. I did make an issue for this in their github, but it might be a while before that happens.
I believe it still has Lemmy compatibility since sublinks is Lemmy compatible in its API, might not be forever when they add new features but at the moment it still is.
I honestly don’t care what the sectarian tribes of the middle east do to each other. they’re all backwards savages to me and the world wouldn’t be at a loss if it got turned into glass
I know that ml can be a bit strict and unreasonable about things sometimes but honestly if you said this on other servers and the admins were aware of you saying it. I'm sure they'd ban you as well for being a racist pig, this shit is absolutely unacceptable, and you absolutely deserve the ban you got for it. No sympathy from us here.
Since OP hasn't adde it yet I decided to go find them myself:
My opinion is he deserved it, I know ml can be strict about censorship but many of these comments are very extreme, and uncalled for.
Why do that after the fact if you're innocent? You want to preserve all content the way it was if you suspect power-tripping. Editing it after the fact is just tampering with the evidence.
YDI, for being a careless fool and tampering with the evidence after the fact. Here's a tip, if you get banned by a power-tripper, don't edit any of your comments, don't even correct a typo. Edits can be used against you because they cast doubt on what really happened.
I haven't made any arguments in this thread, you are putting words in my mouth, and not really helping your credibility. All I said is that the person should defederate Lemmy instances and communities which go against the mission of their instance. Something that almost all instance operators would likely agree on.
Just for the record though, I don't believe people should be kicked out of a project based on their nationality, that seems incredibly xenophobic. I don't know where you got that idea that I said any of those things from.