I just wanted to say that I like this instance. It feels calm, cool, and collected. There is no BS happening here. From what I can see, no one has defederated from us and we have not defederated from anyone else. The rules for the Instance look reasonable. Just wanted to say thanks to everyone for keeping it nice here :-).
Thanks! We like you too <3
I’m always open to suggestions and feedback if you have any. At the moment, we’re small enough to not really attract any drama and bs. I’ve been considering mentioning this instance in other places to try and get a few more users, but not too many. Even though there’s something like 100-200 users signed up, I think there are only <10 or so actual active users on average.
I’m okay with the instance being really small, if you are. I think it is the best way to keep it chill here. It also makes it easier for you if you’re not constantly moderating.
It’s obviously completely up to you!
That’s very true, I’m not interested in constantly moderating a huge community. I do think it’d be nice to have a small community of chill folks though. Nothing like lemmy.world or the other big instances
Yea, no way (re: lemmy.world size.) Definitely keep it smaller haha.
It would be nice to see some participation in our local threads though!
Have we defederated from anyone or been defederated from anyone?
Nope, we haven’t defederated from anyone (instances or communities), and as far as I know noone has defederated from us either.
https://eviltoast.org/instances would show blocked instances if there are any, but I’m not sure if there’s a public page somewhere that would show blocked/banned communities.
There’s also this tool, but I don’t know how accurate it is:
https://fba.ryona.agency/?domain=eviltoast.org vs https://fba.ryona.agency/?domain=lemmy.world as an example
Awesome. Idk why everyone seems to have so much trouble finding an instance that isn’t caught up in any defederation bullshit. Aren’t there hundreds of small instances?
There are, but I think people are still leaning towards the bigger instances by default. Probably part of existing users on those instances recruiting more people and suggesting to use the same instance instead of finding a different one. A lot of reddit threads were linking directly to lemmy.world for example.
I saw some talk about lemmy clients implementing some sort of random sign-up where it puts new users on random instances, or at least shows a list of instances they could choose from. I’m not sure if that’s the solution, but it’d be an improvement imo.
Yea that would definitely help. Also I think there needs to be a better explanation for defederation and exactly what that means. I still find that pretty confusing in terms of exactly who can see/participate with what.
Also you might be interested, I just posted an update on https://eviltoast.org/post/543242 about updating the guidelines a little bit. Nothing’s really changing, but the latest drama did remind me to add a little coverage.
Does the liability page actually help with any legal issues? I suppose it would, right? It’s basically agreeing to terms of use for our “product”
I’m hoping it will in a “show of good faith” type of way if nothing else, but I don’t know how much it truly holds up.