How does that work for discovery, though?

I think like federated TikTok/Vine

I’ve been looking off and on for a few months, but it seems like there aren’t many options anymore like there were 20 years ago. A couple I’ve found are FlatPress and WriteFreely, but I haven’t tried any yet.

I haven’t heard of Write Freely; looks like it’s kind of an open source Medium alternative?

Very interesting, thank you for the explanation.

Edit: is that just for defederation or also when I block an instance on my account?

It looks like it’s this page:

https://fed.dembased.xyz/scoreboard?blockers=100

I’m pretty sure it doesn’t block the users; I blocked the NSFW Lemmy, whatever the big one is, because of how much porn would be on the All feed otherwise. I was surprised to see a post or comment from someone whose account was on that instance a few weeks ago, but it wasn’t anything I didn’t want to see so overall I was glad the users are still able to participate elsewhere if that’s what they want.

I like that clicking on the instance shows the reason given (if any) for each defederation.

Yes, it should definitely be optional

deleted by creator

That could be an improvement over following 3 or 4 identically named communities on different instances

“Running on a jailbroken smart light bulb” might be the best phrase I’ve read all week, congratulations