I found it amusing when, in response to an issue, the admin asked someone to open a ticket by sending it to support@lemmy.world. At first I thought he meant to DM the account, but then I was like Ohhh, you mean actually send an e-mail to that address. I can totally see people confusing the two concepts.

Even ones that have been dead for years

“I am happy to announce that Robin Williams is indeed alive and well. We’ve been arguing about which Linux distro is better for the past few hours.”

According to the ionos api documentation, the API key is formatted as publicprefix.secret

Is that how you entered it in your config?

https://developer.hosting.ionos.com/docs/getstarted

I get that it’s very similar to subreddits going private, and that we have no control over that when it happens. I just find it very disruptive to lose 1/3 of my communities all at once due these events.

The draw of the fediverse is all this interconnectedness. But with people being so divisive these days, it just feels like the end will be siloed walled gardens everywhere. If I need a dozen logins to participate in the communities I want, it just defeats the whole purpose, and we might as well go back to old school single-topic forums.

I used an extreme example, but it’s not always that obvious that you’re on a server that’s going to offend the wrong instance admin. Some don’t want to associate with porn, others “tankies”. In this case, lemmy.world’s offense was simply being “too big”.

I get that a lot of redditors are used to creating alts and throwaway accounts. I just don’t want to have to do that constantly as a workaround for communities disappearing from my feed due to defederation.

Is there a summary somewhere of each instance’s “reputations”? Most descriptions I see are just things like “A place for everyone”. It’s kind of frustrating that new users are told to join any server, because it’s all federated, and then go oops sorry you joined the Nazi server, sucks for you.

On Chrome you can create profiles, and Firefox has the multi-account containers add-in. Either feature will allow you to simultaneously visit the same website with different saved logins in separate windows.

I agree with this. Everyone keeps saying that it doesn’t matter which instance you sign up with, since everything is federated. But my biggest concern is thriving communities potentially getting cut off from the rest of the fediverse because they unluckily got created on an instance that has a bad reputation for something completely unrelated. Allowing users to individually hide entire instances for themselves seems like the better approach.