There’s one major oversight here that needs to be addressed if Lemmy/Piefed were to suddenly gain a glut of new users. How bans work.

Currently, instance bans and community bans are treated as two separate things. When a user is banned from an instance, you’ll often see inthe logs a bunch of community bans alongside it at once. These are communities that user has posted on. An instance ban automatically applies hard-bans to communities they have interacted in from that instance. But the problem here is its only communities they’ve interacted in.

The instance ban itself is simply a rejection of federation. It doesn’t block users from posting in communities on that instance - only the community bans do that. It just means their posts won’t federate out. This means that an instance banned user can continue to be a nuisance in most communities (or all, if they are pre-emptively banned) on an instance locally - and the moderators of that community and instance won’t even know. With larger numbers of users would also mean larger amounts of trolls and incompatible users, which could greatly increase the chance of people simply vandalising communities and no-one even noticing.

Digg already came and went again

May I ask what your prior instances were?

How will it die?

No. Piefed and Mbin are separate software that reads Lemmy instances, but are not Lemmy instances.

Go to piefed.social and you’ll see or fedia.io for mbin.

Tbf piefed.zip doesn’t have much of a local so that makes sense for you, but the user above is on feddit.org, which is a long-running German-language (at least prominent) instance so it does make sense for them in that context if they’re German.

I didn’t watch so maybe you did namedrop, but it’s not just Lemmy anymore - it’s Piefed and Mbin too! (I saw you had a “Lemmy” category)

How do you propose to ban an instance admin from an instance you don’t control, exactly?

Do you think doing this is going to win people to your cause?

You don’t have a right to post on pawb.social. They don’t owe you a platform. You can disagree with how they run it, but the fundamentals of the fediverse are what they are. There’s plenty of other places on the Fediverse to interact on.

Why do you care? This is one user who admins a small instance. Have you got nothing better to do?

Not specifically age-verification, but they are considering checks of some sort at some point to deal with the bot problem on there. That’s at least one angle. They’ve also just rolled it out in small scale to suspicious accounts. So whether or not it is done for the purposes of verifying age, or just dealing with bots - I suspect it’ll arrive in the end once they feel they have the capital to do it.

As for the UK specific issues, it’s hard to get a concrete numbers because most people in the UK just switched to a VPN. In the event of Reddit implementing global ID-check measures, it wouldn’t matter what VPN you switched to - so the situation would be a bit different.

Well at least there is a public modlog. You know someone within a community has hit the ban button. Albeit the viewability of the mod-log generally could do with some ironing out.

We need a system where admins can’t have sweeping powers, but saying that on here is not cool.

It’s also just not possible to do that?

The comparison with /u/spez is off to me. He is more in a position of CEO than an instance admin. He doesn’t get involved in the drudgery. Instance-level admins are more akin to reddit powermods, honestly. Spez is more akin to the devs, except in this case the devs don’t control the instances.

Lemmy.ml isn’t widely defederated to my knowledge.

https://piefed.social/communities

For context, it’s through here. “Create local community”. Oddly enough it’s actually not on the frontpage in anyway - maybe we should change that.

It’s not hard, and you have to wait for a day on piefed.social - this is purely for anti-spam measures.

!promotion@lemmy.world

This

In !television@piefed.social

Basically a post about proposing an anthology series for all cancelled shows where each episode is a wrap-up of how it would’ve ended.

At some point we talked about not having bots count to overall subscriber count, but I don’t know if its implemented yet.