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A Quick Refresher on The Fediverse Meta, Blocklists, and Everything Up to Now
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this post was submitted on 10 Nov 2023
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How do you democratize something when one person owns and pays for the hardware where your instance is? The moment the vote doesn't suit them they can just overrule it. By being on a fediverse, unless you are hosting your instance yourself, you are literally under complete control of some other individual. Lemmy.world and kbin could tomorrow block each other and there's nothing the two of us can do except either comply or leave.
Isn't the point of Lemmy that you can just bounce to another instance?
There's no way to transfer accounts afaik, and just hopping instances doesn't solve the web of blocked / blacklisted domains anyway.
As for hosting it yourself, that's apparently really hard and even big communities are struggling with it. Lemmy/kbin also have issues with all the content you interact with being also downloaded to your instance which sounds like a legal and curation nightmare...
On lemmy for now there is not. But there is on Mastodon and having such a feature in lemmy is just a matter of time.
Sure hope so it solves all the problems. Well except voter spoofing thats a whole new can or worms.
All this drama happened on Mastodon. While user migration is a great feature to have for users, it won't solve this kind of issues.