Looking to make a throwaway to ask a question in Lemmygrad, because discuss.online defederates away from it.

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    If an instance isn’t defederated with another instance, it can talk to it.

    You can see which instances an instance defederates with yourself. For lemmy instances, it’s at /instances. Just check each end.

    So, for example, I’m on lemmy.today. http://lemmy.today/instances doesn’t have lemmygrad.ml in its Blocked Instances list (it doesn’t defederate from anything, as a matter of policy, in fact).

    https://lemmygrad.ml/instances doesn’t have lemmy.today in its Blocked Instance, so it isn’t defederated on their end either.

    Ergo, they can communicate.

    Pretty easy to check a pair of Lemmy instances for that.

    All that being said, though, if you want to create a series of throwaway accounts to argue with them without them banning you, I think that both you and they are going to be happier if you two stay away from each other. It’s just not worth your time, and I think that the chances of there being a productive outcome for you or them isn’t very high.

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    My instance federates with everyone and is very stable. The owner has posted many times that its not the job of the instance owner to control opinions, which I heavily agree with.

    Obvious trolls gets kicked out but generally people are encouraged to have opinions and discussions. I think its a great instance.

    There is a signup but that was only added because spammers made it necessary, not because the owner wanted it.

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      2 months ago

      Yeah, I saw that, and I also discovered leminal.space which has similar qualities to .today

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        Good that we are several. :)