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Unfortunately the latter instance was recently defederated by lemmy.world
Yea ... lemmy.world is probably not the "everything" instance some people were hoping ... but more the "vanilla" instance (which also has a place IMO).
Vanilla instance for vanilla people.
Edit: LMAO I'm on .world too folks (⁀ᗢ⁀)
Completely unrelated to the topic but isn’t it strange how vanilla has somehow become a negative? Vanilla ice cream being the default is because pretty much everyone enjoys vanilla. It’s a fantastic (albeit now very common) flavour.
Real vanilla is also very expensive, so having an exotic and expensive flavour as the default is pretty weird.
Community*
Instance is still federated.
Not the entire instance, they only blocked the piracy community.
It is a shame that once you've signed up for a community you're not allowed to make a user account on any other instance.
Yeah. And it's a shame when they "ban" something, there aren't like hundreds of different instances that can still easily access that content.
Some smart people should really come up with a decentralized federated system so these "bans" become total non-issues.
Ah well, one can dream.
Huh - a data network that routes traffic around missing or blocked nodes. That sounds like an advanced project from some kind of Defense agency. Someone should patent it - an Interconnected Network; I'll bet it would be super popular. I wonder what they'd call it.
Yet another reason to spread out and not centralize on lemmy.world.
I haven't used lemmy.world in a few weeks as it's always down when I want to use it. Went back to my standby.
Heard about it. That's a shame. There's really nothing illegal there. Admins of my instance make a community voting before defederating.
I think I read somewhere that's it's possible to migrate your account to another instance. The idea of Lemmy is that we're not at the mercy of someone's whims.
It is not possible currently to migrate an account. There are tools that let you migrate eg. Your list of subscribed communities, but your posts and comments can't go with you.
The instance wasn't defedared, but the piracy community was blocked.
Wait where was this announced?
It wasn't initially announced. Later they made a statement via discord 🙄
It's only piracy communities they banned though. Not entire instances.
good thing I'm not on world 😂
Bruh I'm not even on Lemmy.world you could see that by clicking on my profile
the Liftoff app shows it for everyone 😏 It should be a default feature imo