It's a mild pain and definitely not what we were promised, but I guess that's the only way federation can really work in practice (especially considering when an instance is blocked user on the blocker side just continue to see it frozen in time, with no warning as to what's going on)

[–] yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Are the 4 instances defederated from eachother? If they aren't then you could just have 2 accounts

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Best play, run your own instance and federate with whoever you want :D

[–] viking@infosec.pub 6 points 8 months ago

Takes away some of the anonymity though, even with domain registrar obfuscation etc., they'd probably disclose the owner to a request from whatever authority comes knocking. And if you're based in a jurisdiction where piracy is explicitly forbidden, federating with db0 and effectively co-hosting links to prohibited content might open a whole other can of worms. And not everyone is technically competent enough to run and maintain an instance, even if the initial setup works out with one of the how-to's.

[–] Neopolitan@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

and if you're really technical and really want to you can even bypass other people's defederation attempts against you.

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