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lemmy.ca has ~~defederated~~ [blocked the community] from lululemmy.com (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by otter@lemmy.ca to c/main@lemmy.ca

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A few months ago, we posted a discussion thread about lemmit.online, which resulted in the decision to defederate from it:

https://lemmy.ca/post/38374922

The reasons were given as follows:

It feels actively harmful to lemmy, since so many of the posts it brings over are questions that the original poster will never see. It encourages a conversation that will never happen, so if someone does reply they’re going to feel disengaged.

The bot rarely gets any upvotes or engagement, and I suspect a majority of people (like myself) have just blocked it.

These reasons also apply to lululemmy.com, and so we just defederated from it as well. Same as before, if you were using it and miss it, let us know and we can reconsider.

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[–] otter@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

As some users have pointed out, the instance has a few other communities which, while empty, do not have this same problem. As such, we've refederated and instead blocked that community.