I can understand de-federating from something like lemmygrad.ml. I can’t for the life of me understand lemmy.world or sh.itjust.works (love the name btw). Both instances just seem to be filled with regular, moderate people?

https://beehaw.org/post/567170

Could we use this as an opportunity to change the name to something that doesn’t contain hate speech?

Home instance is lemmygrad

Yup, that checks. Try harder

One thing that definitely worries me with federation in general is the barrier to entry to hosting an instance is low, by design. On one hand this is great, but on the other hand it means just about anyone can spin up an instance and collect usernames, passwords, emails, etc. from anyone who signs up

I know this is obviously no better than an single giant corporation who can do that. But it’s interesting to think about.

I’m definitely not suggesting kbin.social is doing this by the way. Your post just spurred this thought for me

Fair enough.

Although does this create a separate problem where every instance you sign up to has your email address? Or is email option in most instances?

I wish there were a way to transfer/propagate a single identity across multiple instances. I would love to use a less crowded instance, but I don’t want to keep creating new accounts.

Where do you go in Jerboa to search for communities?

Sorry if this is a very basic question

Makes sense! Thanks for the explanation

I tried to make an account on lemmy.ml and it looks like their servers are (understandably) overloaded

I ended up choosing lemmy.world instead

My understanding is I’m not missing out on anything by chosing a less-popular instance. Did I get that right?