Yeah pretty much. About a year ago, a lemmy.ml admin “removed” community !conservative@sh.itjust.works for bigotry, which essentially defederated it.
now i wonder why entire instances have been defederated instead of only the communities they don’t like.
For one example, exploding-heads.com was a haven for fascists, and we won’t have them in our communities.
Defederating the community just gets rid of the posts. Defederating the entire instance gets rid of the posts AND the users.
Some defederate from .ml because it’s full of tankies.
Well I learned a new word today
– to their own detriment and good riddance.
Pretty sure that’s been a thing for a while. It’s like when lemmy.world blocked !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com. They are still federated but they just blocked that one community.
I assume that’s what lemmy.ml is doing with the conservative community.
that was my first guess too, but unlike piracy; i can see comments that people post into that community, but i can’t see any posts or the community itself.
also: it doesn’t make much sense for lemmy.ml to block one conservative community, but not the others.
If you can’t see the community itself, then how are you seeing comments?
When you view people’s profiles?
i browse lemmy using the comments feed.
Wow. I never even noticed that option before. That’s actually pretty cool.
But kind of sounds like a bug in that case, because if the admins wanted to remove the community then it shouldn’t be possible to view comments from there either.
careful; the comments feed makes it addicting. lol
I feel like it’s so confusing if you just see the comments without the posts. But also the comments are the best part of Lemmy so it kinda makes sense.
I’m already addicted to Lemmy so that’s not an issue
acknowledging that you have a problem is the first step. lol
it shouldn’t be confusing in your case since this conservative community is on your primary instance; so when you see a wtf comment, you’ll be able to get the context easily. someone like me, on the other hand, has to put in effort by searching through the instance itself to understand it.
