Something though, I think it'd be better to have a cut-off of MAU or some other relevance metric, as otherwise smaller instances defederating from major ones may sneakily make the major one seem more isolated than it really is.

Amen, sib. If there's one with cunt in its name we'll go there!

Besides, and related to "not being a platform", it helps break the idea of everyone having to share the same space with everyone. If two groups can't have a healthy relationship, it is healthier for them to cut ties with each other. Meanwhile, the oligarchic platforms being as big and with barely any internal borders makes for the toxic environment of places like Reddit and Twitter that predates recent polemics.

Don’t like how they’re doing it, you can literally spin up your own for dollars per month.

Not so easy.
Mostly a liability issue.
First there's security - make sure the server doesn't get compromised.
Then you need to figure out how to deal with illegal content like CSAM (was already a widespread issue on Lemmy at least once, causing multiple instances to shutdown) - even on private instance due to content caching.
And legal issues such as minimum age and privacy regulations that you'd have to comply with.

3rd one is not an issue if you only use it yourself, and perhaps with a couple of friends that won't try to sue you when they get mad.

Well said, agent Johnson.

God bless the U.S. of A

Agreed. Its federated. Let instances do thier thing. It gives us more options not less.

You gotta ask the OOP about that, but my guess is, in a graph that shows instances that defederate, why include an instance that doesn't?

Came here to say that!

I can't comprehend why people would join instances in the list. If you don't like a particular instance, just hop into the user settings and block it! Why let others set your blocklist?

Yeah the 3 yellows really are hard to differentiate.

tankie bullshit

Hexbear originated from ChapoTrapHouse fandom which is a part of the so-called dirtbag left that explicitly antagonizes (neo)liberals. They also don't use downvotes and encourage users to voice their opinions instead.

So every wave of redditor freaks the hell out when they get a handful of hexbear users clowning on some take like it's a coordinated brigade attack.

tankies.

they are too extreme for the normal extremists.

lemmygrad because they are perceived as tankies / commies, and thus get all the kneerjerk reaction from the people who are unwilling to apply the same standards to the US, the EU or Israel.

Hexbear, honestly no idea.

Tankies act a heck of a lot like Alt-Right MAGA, both outright calling for genocide so long as it is done against their enemies rather than allies. In short, tankies claim to be leftist, but aren't.

That said, Hexbear isn't even that much really, so much as pure trolling for its own sake. Both are examples of what happens when echo chambers are allowed to exist for a long time - the people inside become radicalized and immune to factual information from the outside that may run counter to their allowed list of interpretations of matters.

If people want porn there's a million places they can look instead. It makes sense to just remove porn spam from your instance, most people don't really want it in with everything else. Also, it's harder to moderate or find people willing to moderate it.

i havent seen any of the discussions leading to this, but i assume the sheer amount of images/video takes up a lot of space, so they instances decided to avoid it altogether.

that and potential risks if something particularly unsavory becomes mirrored on your instance.

The way the apps and frontends are setup, its easy enough to use alts for different usecases instead of having porn attached to general instances. Seperating gooner personas from regular is a positive imo. Keep that energy on the nsfw instances, banning them isn't like reddit getting rid of a community, everyone still can sign up and access it on the same app they already use. I always hated scrolling on r/all and seeing porn every 5 posts (nsfw tag covers a lot of non porn) Doesn't mean I don't use reddit for porn, I think I wouldve preferred having an alt there that only showed porn subs and vice versa with my main account showing none. Some seperation is healthy imo.

i know blahaj at least defederated it because of "a community for porn of women that appear to be under 18" (direct quotation from a local-only post)

i couldn’t find it myself (there’s a lot of communities on there!) but i’m guessing it’s some sort of "barely legal" porn community, which is gross (but unfortunately very common). so good riddance imo

It's not just porn.

It's pretty much all fetish and kink stuff... At least last time I looked. Including cartoons of children. Maybe worse than cartoons. Noped out quick. Cops find that shit in your cache and you might be going to prison.

There is https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/map but I don't know how accurate it is

edit: it looks completely off at first glance lol

Yes, despite the problems with the other one, I found it easier to read. This one has too many crossing connections, and loses the groups.

Legal risk. Being federated means mirroring the content locally and that can cause liability for the instance owner. Laws around porn can vary by country and to some being federated could be illegal, or be an unreasonable risk.

Reposting porn from other sites i assune

porn that makes most folks uncomfortable

Defederation is often seen as a last resort and generally seen pretty negatively. Defederating everyone would also get rid of most content

beehaw?

Some instances use allowlist meaning other servers are defederated unless added to the list. Hexbear is the only major instance that uses this model, to my knowledge.

Ah my bad I gotta redo it now

2 of the major instances in this graph. They might block many more that are smaller but I didn't check.

Specifically the 2 instances that everybody blocks, and it’s mostly fans of those two instances that complain about it.