I imagine they are in damage control mode and are hoping to stem the outflow of users’ attention spans to the Lemmyverse while their current actions are the Current Thing.
I reckon they are budgeting for a 1-2 week martial law period to try and stabilise and will probably force open all the closed subs and make use of repost and chatGPT bots to simulate decent engagement, possibly even paying for comments too.
It would also be very interesting if they roll back on their censorship of open discussion of certain topics to attract back previously “resettled” users.
Currently the admins have to curate this for you through federation, although you can try and whack a mole individual communities from an instance. Heaps of people are asking for user level control of blocking instances and I hope it comes soon as there’s a couple instances I keep seeing federated into my feed that I find abhorrent, and this growth phase of Lemmy means new communities on those instances keep appearing.
Yep and you’re not subject to the whims of your home instance admins deciding what they will and won’t federate with, and how you must behave across the fediverse.
Hey mate, any recos for Aussie instances?
Whilst it’s all part of the fediverse experience, I think there needs to be a much lower friction workflow to migrate users, even if banned, to reduce the cost to a user of disagreements with mods that can’t be resolved harmoniously on an instance.
It desperately needs lower friction remote community subscribing and a user migration workflow between instances.
Is the Boost dev aware of this?
Reddit was so American too, all the arguments and things seemed to be through their world view. The fediverse should allow much more diversity, and be a bit more multicultural