No, why? I’m just pointing out that there are a lot of accounts that a lot of people want to follow who are very unlikely to ever move to non-corporate social media.

Yeah, say that to Biden…

It actually isn’t that big. It grew a lot initially because people on Instagram were practically forced to join (or so I’ve heard), but then activity died down very quickly (www.cnn.com/2023/08/03/tech/th…).

I’d say the ability to interact with the high-profile accounts on threads via Masto makes it a much more attractive alternative for many, although I personally have no interest in doing so.

Okay, that’s entirely fair. I was mostly thinking about the microblogging side of the Fediverse and didn’t quite consider the complexity that it would add to community moderation. I guess better moderation mechanisms could probably account for that, but Lemmy is as of now far away from that.

Edit: One might also solve that by not allowing soft defederated users to post in local communities.

Well I said that illegal content should still be defederated. And I don’t think soft defederated content has to be moderated, since it’s only a number of users who choose to see it.

Clarification, because people keep misunderstanding my point: What I’m advocating for is replacing most defederation with some sort of “soft defederation” in which instance admins can select domains which are blocked by default for the users, but which they can unblock afterwards if they want to.

No, I mean that admins select instances that are blocked by default for users. Kinda like a soft defederation.

I hear you, and that’s why I’m suggesting the implementation of default instance blocks before more open federation.

If you have a criticism, I’m all ears.

Yes, and instance blocking would solve that as well because the users wouldn’t see those comments.

Me too. I’m simply trying to spark ideas for devs to give admins more options for how they can run their instances (and also trying to convince admins about what’s best for the Fediverse).

There are great sites like fediseer.com to keep track of suspicious instances. And if those users see illegal content they can report it to the admins.

Good question. Tagging @timbray so that he can answer.

Content isn’t cached unless someone follows it anyways.

And I’m not sure what you mean with that latter part; what difference would this make in what content admins can see before they cast their judgement on a server?

Friendica does this already! This is how I see your comment:

@Bebo
You can always migrate, but sadly there is no way to import your profile directly from Mastodon. The two best apps, Fedilab and Relatica, are fine but rather limited in functionality, so I often end up using the web version.

I love both Mastodon and Lemmy, but they usually don’t federate very well with each other, so one cannot replace the other: Lemmy users cannot see microblog posts which aren’t connected to any community and Mastodon doesn’t show the body of Lemmy posts. Currently trying out Friendica, which manages all parts of the Fediverse reasonably well.