I’m wondering what “over 400 blocked instances” means in practical terms. Most of us have no idea if 400 is a large or small number in relation to the size of the fediverse. Most of us don’t know how big those blocked instances are, or if they even exist anymore.

Mostly, as you explain, I don’t care about numbers if what they’re blocking is hatred and abuse. Maybe “over 400 blocked instances” is supposed to be a criticism, but to me, it sounds like the people running Beehaw are doing their jobs well.

Many are also Mastodon instances, which can be particularly troublesome.

The problem with large blocking lists is that they can't be easily audited. How do you know if there's any legit website amongst 400 links?

I view it as a useful over simplification. We can simplify politics all the way down to "Left/Right" but that ignores so much of what motivates and drives people. In our current political environment, an ecofascist and an anarchosyndicalist might both be labeled as "left" even though the only thing they have in common is thinking "Maybe we shouldn't just destroy the planet?" so the political compass is an easy to print visual aid to help guide people to that political views exist along multiple spectrums. My personal view is that the current best "political quiz with information at the backend about who you fit with" is 9axes, and that's mostly because we've gotten to a point where we're ready to start labeling the political compass as "no longer a useful over simplification, and instead a gross oversimplification"

You're doing an excellent job and if I'd known what a blahaj was I probably would have started on your instance

Our instance fucking rules and offers the most interesting and diverse communities on Lemmy. Thank you for your efforts.

It can seem authoritarian or an overreaction of you don’t know why the decision was made.

Once a critic learns that defederating was a last-choice decision reluctantly made because of inadequate mod tools and a small, overwhelmed staff, things make more sense. If they still want to complain after that, I just walk away. Sometimes people have already decided to be angry regardless of what the facts are, and debate never helps in those situations.

I just read that:

You see beehaw users complaining about not having access to [email protected] , because while there is [email protected] , it has two posts that are 2 months old

The right likes to think that they have a right to push their ideas on you

It's up now. Not terribly active, unfortunately, but I love that someone had the dedication of creating one. And, as I said the meme, their theme is lovely.

I'm subscribed to [email protected] and haven't seen any problems there, it's kind of a normal Tech and privacy community, that's why I didn't de-federate from them. I probably blocked some users from there.

I feel like they are near the Orange LibLeft quadrant: a liberal that actually ends up behaving in a somewhat authoritarian manner in enforcing their beliefs onto others for the sake of safety, diversity and so on.

Both beehaw and their admins are great and at the end of the day the beauty of the fediverse is that everyone can run their instance as they please. I just wish there was another way to fix this sort of probems without having to block 5k+ people from accessing your website.

I am gonna give a hot-take, but we need more conservative on the fediverse

100% agree. And no, this doesn't mean Trump supporters. In fact it doesn't even mean anything close to the American right. Other countries have reasonable and functioning centre-right parties and I'd love to have something like that on Lemmy.

I agree and I do that with all the fediverse services, if I care enough to use it then I also care enough to host a single-user instance for myself.

Try unilem. They have an explicit policy of not defederating from any instance.