This is false. When you suspend an instance on Mastodon, it rejects all communication attempts from said suspended server.

I'm neutral on this ordeal. I'd like to be able to downvote the weird reply guys but if I can't it doesn't actually matter. Just a Reddit habbit.

I've been on the fediverse since 2017. Anyone who's dealt with running an instance knows how much of a pain in the ass dealing with huge monolithic instances is.

Recently on Mastodon for example, Mastodon.social has had huge spam waves of bots creating accounts on it then randomly sending replies with spam links to anyone they can find. And of course because Mastodon.Social is a huge instance with not enough moderators, people on outside instances can't really do anything except whack-a-mole with the constantly new accounts since the "flagship instance" has open registration. At one point the instance I use now had to suspend mastodon.social temporarily to make the spam wave stop, which of course screwed up everyone's follows.

The best part of Mastodon is the federated nature of the network, which gets completely screwed up when you have mountains of people on a handful of "too-big-to-suspend" instances rather than have people spread out across hundreds-thousands of smaller spaces.

"People can scrape your website, therefore you should just submit and allow your server to freely hand all your user's posts over to meta upon request" is quite the take.

Sure but that doesn't mean your instances should just hand your posts over to Meta??? And other people here are wrong, maybe lemmy does it differently, but on Mastodon when you defederate from an instance, your instance stops communicating with that instance entirely, rejecting all attempts to exchange information from that server. Anything the suspended instance saw before the suspension sticks around, but that's basically it. If they never get a chance to even see the information, then the server essentially gets nothing.

You're missing the bigger picture. If threads is federating with the fediverse, then that means Zuck is downloading and indexing a copy of everyone else's posts OUTSIDE of threads.

Ok but invite who? Any new moderators can see how you treat the current ones. Who the fuck is lining up to get treated like shit to moderate a major website for FREE?

The ideal way that ActivityPub federation works IMO is a bunch of smaller nodes coming together to make a large network.

If you have a bunch of people all on one or two instances then you'll have a "central hub" of the network that's constantly overloaded.

That's my advice to community builders on this platform... Spread out across smaller instances, don't just all sign up to a big one.

I replied to this one yesterday. Still hasn't shown up. None of the comments on the post from others show up here either. https://lib.lgbt/post/26543 https://lemmy.ml/post/1458007?scrollToComments=true

It appears comments aren't federating to lemmy.ml? Not seeing them over there when I go to those communities directly on their own sites.

Honestly as far as queer representation, I think Overwatch hasn't... really done all that well... until very recently at least.

Tracer and Soldier 76's reveals were more shoved into a comic that was banned in a couple countries and a short story.

They didn't start actually being open about the sexuality of the characters beyond that until recently because back in January they left the Chinese market entirely, and last year after the Russia sanctions they also stopped marketing the game entirely in Russia.

This is in comparison to other games at least... Apex Legends has multiple LGBT characters.

Genuinely wish Blizzard had left the chinese and russian markets much sooner.