This right here sums it up nicely:

The whole shtick with Fediseer is to pressure instances into falling in line under threat of defederation. It’s reasonably effective, most small instances would struggle when cut off from chunks of the federated network they’re trying to be a part of.

I also think most Admins probably hope to get some money coming in through donations, and you need to be reasonably vanilla and attract new people for that to work.

We really don’t need donations to keep running, in fact we don’t even ask. I’ll be damned if I let some random Internet dude with an over-inflated sense of self-importance tell me who I can or can’t allow on the instance I run as a hobby, as to not offend his political sensibilities.

@realcaseyrollins@narwhal.city I meant this as a reply to your post but failed.

Definitely, post as much as you like, it will federate automatically to all the linked instances.

A word of advice is to stagger the content a bit (e.g. give it 10-20 minutes between posts) - I personally don’t care but other admins might perceive posting too much, too quickly as spam. You or your community can still be banned locally on other instances.

People can be pretty quick to jump the trigger on this stuff, I got a report about you being a bot too. It’s all a bit silly.

Yes it can, I can see it pop up in the lemmy.world search just fine. Federation is a bit wonky at first but now that it has been linked, it should be relatively smooth sailing.

It’s true, some instances do de-federate us. Not all, hence I can talk to you here, but some do.

As an instance we do not suppress content based on political views, and this rubs many people the wrong way. I can’t change what they do and I can’t change their minds either, so it is what it is unfortunately.

Hey, firstly thanks for starting a community on our little instance - we are glad to have you!

I have used lemmy-federate.com on your behalf to federate it more broadly.

Regarding your issue, Lemmy can get a bit confused when you’re logged into multiple instances from the same browser. Your best bet is to clear cache and try again.

Edit: Just read some of the other comments, lemmy.ml and some others do indeed de-federate us, which is why you won’t see the community from there.

https://hilariouschaos.com/ does not ban/censor people we disagree with, we do not moderate based on political lines. This statement applies to the instance; individual communities run by other users will moderate according to their own standards.

Our rules around content are covered in our terms of service, we expect everyone who joins to agree to these terms and respect them, but as an instance we do not have an agenda.

This is pretty unpopular on Lemmy, we get called many names and get shunned a lot for it. Nevertheless, you are welcome to join if this sounds appealing to you.

No, it isn’t.

Hard to say, we’ll have to wait and see who gets it.

I personally think there’s no point for them to try and get it back, they’ll most likely come back under a different domain.

Truly salt of the earth

I agree that it’s a difficult balancing act. Overall though, the role of a moderator is to facilitate conversation in accordance to the rules, not enforce their own narrative on the community. These steps are not perfect, but they are an attempt to try and get moderators to moderate more and dictate less.

This is refreshing to see, good on you for daring to do this. There is no reason to fear respectful debate in the absence of an agenda.

I think that was an old rant from before we were even federated, as to why I didn’t want to bother at the time. It was an exaggeration, overall we’ve been getting along great with everyone else we’ve federated with since then.

I wasn’t completely off base, for example a bunch of instances defederated us simply because we’re “EH 2.0”, even though they never interacted with us. At the time we were already defederated by a couple of the more zealous ones. The fine gentleman who runs Fediseer is recommending to everyone that they defederate us for being “chuds”. It’s all pretty childish.

Hey, I just randomly stumbled on this and thought I’d give you a reply, for what it’s worth. We’ve got a whitelist because there are thousands of Fediverse instances out there and many of them host questionable content (things like loli porn). It’s too much risk to ignore them, and too much effort to weed them out.

We’ve added everyone listed on join-lemmy.org who hasn’t de-federated us. I guess if you’re not on there then we just haven’t noticed you yet. I’ve added your instance to our whitelist now.

If anyone else also wants to be added and isn’t yet, please do reach out.

As you can tell by the comments in this thread, many people feel like they know us well based on what they have heard. I guess we are guilty of having a handful of members who used to be on the old exploding-heads instance, so we must be EH 2.0. All anyone would have to do is open our site and browse through the endless pages of shitposts for themselves to figure out how silly that is.

Some are even aubergines

Sounds like a great pharma tagline