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  • abhibeckert@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Some people might do that. But lemmy.world is a very well run community that has never done anything offensive, and yet it’s still defederated by some of the biggest lemmy instances.

    That proves defederation is for more than just spam/illegal content/harassment.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, they’re the one that makes you answer 3 vague open end questions and then manually approve it.

        If you don’t write enough, or write something they dont agree with… You dont get denied, it’s just like it’s still pending indefinitely.

        Lemmy.world requires a valid email instead (something beehaw doesn’t).

        There’s no right or wrong way to go about it. Which is the biggest benefit of Lemmy. Somewhere out there, there’s an instance being ran like how you want, if not, just make your own.

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          I’d say that leaving your request pending forever is definitely the wrong way They are trying to hide their rejections

          But the great thing about federated instances is that even if you are wronged, you have options You’re never between a rock and a hard place

          What I plan to do is just create accounts in the server I’m interested in, and link between accounts so people know I’m the same person. It even works as a backup

          There will be instances that will delete your account if you have an account at other instances, however my life experience is that I’m better without the kind of people who does that, so their self-revelation as such an agent is also a plus