Those who condemn centralised social media naturally block these nodes:
- #LemmyWorld
- #shItjustWorks
- #LemmyCA
- #programmingDev
- #LemmyOne
- #LemmEE
- #LemmyZip
The global timeline is the landing page on Mbin nodes. It’s swamped with posts from communities hosted in the above shitty centralised nodes, which break interoperability for all demographics that Cloudflare Inc. marginalises.
Mbin gives a way for users to block specific magazines (Lemmy communities), but no way to block a whole node. So users face this this very tedious task of blocking hundreds of magazines which is effectively like a game of whack-a-mole. Whenever someone else on the Mbin node subscribes to a CF/centralised node, the global timeline gets polluted with exclusive content and potentially many other users have to find the block button.
Secondary problem: (unblocking)
My blocked list now contains hundreds of magazines spanning several pages. What if LemmEE decides one day to join the decentralised free world? I would likely want to stop blocking all communities on that node. But unblocking is also very tedious because you have to visit every blocked magazine and click “unblock”.
the fix
① Nix the global timeline. Lemmy also lacks whole-node blocking at the user level, but Lemmy avoids this problem by not even having a global timeline. Logged-in users see a timeline that’s populated only with communities they subscribe to.
«OR»
② Enable users to specify a list of nodes for which they want filtered out of their view of the global timeline.
I’m on lemmy.world because the first two instances I used disappeared. It has all the features I want and I’ve only had one or two connection issues with it…so why change?
I did make an account on another one because I liked the URL but I figured out why .world blocked a few instances when on the FIRST POST I clicked I found a prolific commenter who signed every post “Death to America”. Call it an echo chamber, but I can live without interacting with people like that.
The personal benefit of decentralization is that I can change instances any time I want to. The broader benefit is that anyone can change instances when they want to and no one corporation controls it. If lemmy.world died tomorrow, I’d carry on using the fediverse somewhere else. Not a big deal.