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With the way some people treat the fediverse I'd argue that this place as a whole is well on its way to becoming an echo chamber.
The number of posts I've seen along the lines of "hey I don't like x, can we de-federate" is shocking. People need to have some level of accountability and block people / communities / domains for themselves without resorting to pulling out the de-federation ban-hammer which affects everyone else on the instance
On top of that, the Lemmy user base consists mainly of left wing people and tech power users currently. Not a bad thing for me, but it does make me wonder about how effective it will be at attracting a larger user base; I personally think Lemmy needs to simplify/streamline/modernize its default UI/UX and sign up process to something more people are familiar with, but I've gotten a lot of pushback when I bring that up
Yes and no. Some instances truly are made to cater to people who will ruin the experience for the average person/might possibly put admins in a position where they're hosting illegal content and the good thing about Lemmy is that the consequences of defederation are small, these people get to keep their platform to interact in, they just don't get access to some of the content available to others, it's much better than making their platform disappear and seeing them invade other platforms.
Not like accounts are needed to be able to see content either, which is a plus even if the instance you use is defederated. I think it's better to just see each instance like an old school forum. Sometimes you need to make another account to access a specific forum. Sometimes not if the forum has categories you are interested in already. So it's like a way of going back to the old way of the internet where things are starting to get much more decentralized.
I mean go to lemmygrad, seriously just go to a few top posts and read the comments, youโd be shocked at how echo chambery it is when their posts get on all