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The only difference is the administration of the instance (their activeness, beliefs and how they choose to moderate), what instances they federated or defederated with (like hexbear and lemmygrad), and what features they've chosen to implement or not (like downvotes). For casual use, it probably doesn't make a difference.
I'm just now realizing my primary account is here on .ee as well. I have one with lemmy.one and midwest.social but I'll probably make a new one somewhere else like dbzero unless they're still federated with hexbear since .one doesn't use downvotes and I have constant connection issues with midwest.social.
I was under the impression that any server will have access to any instance? Is that not the case? Do some of them limit ? I would we looking for the one that limits nothing
I chose lemmy.zip because it has similar fed/defed policies as lemm.ee.
A server can decide what servers it's connected to. It can have a blacklist of blocked instances - or even go further and have a whitelist of allowed instances, blocking all else.
Such a feature is necessary to deal with issues like spam instances, or instances that host illegal content.
One of the things I like a lot about lemme.ee is that they have blocked very few instances.
https://lemmy.zip/ has a similar federation policy, they have hexbear.net and lemmygrad.ml user-blocked by default, but this can be disabled.
Many block only hexbear and lemmygrad because they are just propaganda machines. Mostly they were left unblocked until their users started to invade other instances to spread their blatant propaganda.
I think if it like an ad block. On lemm.ee, I blocked them both on my own anyway because I found them obnoxious.
If you go to the main page website of an instance and scroll all the way to the bottom, there should be an "instances" button that will tell you which instances are federated and which are blocked. I figure the default page is like lemme.ee/instances or sopuli.xyz/instances for example.
edit: I've upset the .ml Also, you'll see most have chapo.chat is also on the blocked list because it is Hexbear when Hexbear lost their server or something
That's not what happened, actually. Hexbear, for example, wasn't federated with anyone for years until it started federating, and servers like Lemmy.world defederated before being federated. Lemmygrad.ml is fairly broadly federated, but gives the illusion of being widely defederated because Lemmy.world also defederated from them, as Lemmy.world admins are anti-Marxist (just read the reasons they gave for defederation).
They aren't any more or less propaganda than other instances, they are different in alignment, ie Hex is Anarchist/Marxist (general) and Lemmygrad is Marxist-Leninist.
isn't the entire point of a federated platform that you're going to be able to access other instances?
istg people hit the block button like they're mashing the independent thought alarm
Yes, but the point isn't to connect to every instance.
Curated instances and smaller networks within the fediverse were always thought of.
Yeah, but it's weird to be complaining about people using /all and finding content, calling it "invading"
It does appear that way, and there are some cases of it happening, but doesn't servers blocking hexbear solve the problem of people complaining about it, for people on hexbear?
I mean this was a .ee user complaining about seeing people they're federated with, I'm sure they will be more happy in one of the more liberal echo chamber instances