That's a pretty common mindset amongst small instance runners I think, including the one I'm on. Only caveat, this instance doesn't allow NSFW posting (viewing is fine), and has a pretty vague ban policy lmao

As long as it isn't actual credentials from reputable sites, it's almost definitely a scam lol

Yeah, but if you were to advertise your instance, this is probably something I'd put as a selling point, rather than have some racist person sign up to your instance only to get banned a couple days later.

Defederation because of harassment seems excessive, surely one can just mute a user? Not sure if I'd be comfortable with your defedation policy. It's one thing to defederate from definitely-illegal-content like CSAM, it's another thing to defederate because feelings were hurt.

Defederation because of harassment seems excessive, surely one can just mute a user? Not sure if I'd be comfortable with your defedation policy. It's one thing to defederate from definitely-illegal-content like CSAM, it's another thing to defederate because feelings were hurt.

So long as major instances continue to rely on blacklists rather than whitelists, that won't be a problem for the hundreds of small instances.

The end game is to either run your own instance, or find an instance that is run by an admin with the same mindset as you might have.

It's a great take and I hope they do continue to ban/block more controversial topics so people spread out more.

That's not how federation works. You can still interact with lemmy.world and its users from another instance, but spreading out not only helps with lemmy.world's load, but also the fediverse.

Wait till lemmy.world is up, and then run the tool?

Almost definitely, it's hard to imagine there's a community on lemmy.world that not one of the 20k users have susbcribed to

Pretty much any of the top 5 instances already subscribe to each others communities. Definitely not missing out on lemm.ee either!