Meh, it’s a hobby. Lots of people talk about their hobbies.

Still a funny comic, though.

SMH my head

That’s what my “friend” did. Reddit banned every account he used on his phone at once, but with a different IP, desktop browser, and cookie isolation, they haven’t noticed so far. He might sound like some professional troll, but he was actually banned for a stupid reason.

Beehaw defederated with instances because they didn’t want to interact with its users. If the users of those instances migrate to another instance en masse, then Beehaw will defederate with that instance as well. Give up on interacting with Beehaw, because they don’t want the same things that people not registered on Beehaw want.

The issue is that due to the different defederation policies, if you want to communicate to the whole fediverse audience, you need to both.

Besides Beehaw, have any other big instances defederated from lemmy.world? I don’t think defederation is a widespread issue.

Anyone on any other instance could reply with the word “downvote” and it would have the same effect. Users on the same instance could do that too, but typically people who join such instances agree with its sentiment.

If it becomes a big enough problem, other instances can de-federate with problematic instances. I don’t like de-federation, but I also don’t like disabling downvotes.

Users who can’t handle downvotes on their own instance clearly can’t be trusted with downvotes elsewhere.