I don't really expect 4channers to have reasonable opinions on moderation, the whole reason it's the way it is is because of lax moderation

On Lemmy, it's shown. On Mastodon, instances are given the ability to hide their blocked instances which IMO hinders people's ability to join. A lot of the drama on the fediverse with regards to blocking is from Mastodon and similar instances.

People claim the instance you join doesn't matter because "everything is federated!" but it kind of does. It strongly affects the people who will see your posts and even who you can follow, and if you don't know what an instance is blocking it creates an air of uncertainty. I've seen instances get blocked for stupid at best and downright malicious at worst reasons, so the 4chan post isn't inherently wrong.

The largest instances all block many other instances and they are all in favor of federating with Meta as well.

To be fair, a lot of the blocking are of instances that are causing lots of moderation problems, since they post things that upset many users.

Most users actually prefer a walled garden experience so they don't have to see things that upsets them. As long as they feel the walled garden has sensible rules.

I've gotten used to just accessing Lemmy through the Eternity app.

How would I look at the graph showing instances and which ones are connected to each other?

As someone privvy to the insane amount of alt accounts, you're gonna have to be more specific. There's at least like 5-6 a day at this point.

Your views are completely ignorant to what the entire point of the fediverse even is.

I think you are missing his point, that the fediverse in large parts is failing to live up to its own aspirations. Yes, of course the people who gravitated to the fediverse expect more independence and self organization, but I think people also expected some semblance of cooperation and community.

It feels like instead of having one large empire ruled by an emperor, we're instead in a divided land ruled by hundreds of kings. The abuses are the same, but more localized.

Yes you can move on to the next realm once you make an enemy of some minor tyrant, but this also forces people to be more transient. Which isn't amicable to creating a long lasting community with lots of engagement.

Reddit has it's problems, everyone here already knows that. But, that shouldn't prevent us from engaging in self criticism about the fediverse. A system that can't be criticized is a system doomed to stagnation.

Except you get banned from different communities on a whim of a powertripping moderator. And all of those communities have 0.1% of the userbase. And all of those communities are duplicated, to further fracture it.

It all sounds fun on paper, but the reality is, it's not working. Just the meta scare recently is a good example - guilty until proven innocent, banning a huge potential userbase "cuz its meta".

Please don't get worked up over a 4chan post...

This

"Yikes..."

Not just political subs. I’ve been banned from silly video subs just for commenting on /r/conservative.

No one who goes to 4chan in the 2020s has a viewpoint worth listening to. At best they just like trolling idiots.

It doesn't need to fix every issue. It just need to be better on the areas where it matters to most people.