Fediverse

Which is why it’s important for users to reject attempts at splitting the network into different codebases in the firstplace.

It is what it is. Mbin also existed before Piefed.

That piefed and many of its users reject working with lemmy devs on principle over political grievance doesn’t change or justify the fact that they are destroying the democratic nature of the federated network they’re taking advantage of.

You're assuming some hand has been offered that has been slapped away by Rimu. I'm not aware of this. I'm pretty sure they have shared information about things in the past.

Which is why defederation is a last resort and usually requires some democratic discussion as an instance. Same with instance-banning users - that ability is limited to admins, which means users can hold them accountable if there’s abuse. It’s a reason why i consider users who go out of their way to foment division against other instances or users over petty disagreements are caustic and unwelcome, but are at least still working within a decentralized and democratic framework. When any user has the ability to create the same kind of holes in the network, all accountability vanishes and it starts to look like swiss-cheese.

I mean yes, and no (depends on the instance), that's true but you know as well as I do three instances of note are heavy defederated (hilariouschaos being the third incase you were wondering). Plenty of smaller sloppy attempts also get defederated fast too, usually stuff like maga.place.