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Does federation add any value to your lemmy browsing experience? (fapsi.be)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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ie. Will you really miss anything if your home instance stopped federating? Question mainly targeted at the less tech-savvy users of the largest instances

Edit: I know federation is important for smaller instances and other fedi apps, but my question was directed at lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml users. Sorry if I wasn't clear about that the first time.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Turning off federation would have the added benefit of stopping the crazies from coming on here

After reading this conversation, I had the similar thought. Instead of wasting effort resolving federation-related issues, it would be far better to concentrate on enhancing other parts of the Lemmy software and community if federation doesn't actually offer much value to the majority of users.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Why not just block specific servers instead of only allowing specific ones?