I don’t think there is a way native to Lemmy for a mod to do that. You would have to talk to the instance admin you are on to defederate them at the moment. This might change in the future.
What you might be able to do is see if anyone has made a mod bot yet. Then you could configure the bot to ban anyone who posts from instances you don’t like. So reactive bans instead of preemptive.
I’ve seen the first couple bots pop up so I would expect to see a mod bot pretty soon.
I’m not seeing any serious suggestions of that there. Looks more like hypothetical talk.
I actually had a similar thought to that yesterday. Could moderators be classified as employees for the work they do?
I think you would have a massive uphill struggle to argue Reddit’s moderators are employees in court. Without that no back pay and no union.
As far as I’m aware defederation is one way. If instance 1 defederates instance 2 it means they won’t accept posts, comments or any other data from the instance 2. But instance 2 is still capable of viewing the data from instances 1 much like an unlogged in user
Looking at lemmy.ml/instances I dont see lemmy.world in the blocked list. I don’t think either has defederates the other. Are you thinking of Beehaw?
Mastodon instances are technically able to interact with lemmy instances. Both platforms use the ActivityPub protocol. The issue for your average user is the UI frontend of the platforms don’t have anyway of doing the correct queries or display the information from each other. But if you use alternative interfaces, I think it’s basically just all command line utilities at the moment, you can view content and post across them. There should be some other platforms able to do this as well.
Here is the list of all instances federated or blocked by lemmy.world. I couldn’t see defederation or blocking instances in the modlog so there might not be a log with reasons.
As for rules. I’m just checking what each server a given community is on. Most things are only on a handful or instances. If a community keeps popping up on a feed from a community on a server I don’t like, I just block the community. I’ll probably keep doing that until user level blocking of instances is implemented.
No idea. I can see not up voting it. I think it’s a bit of a non-story. Country looks to maybe join a group containing it’s some of it large trading partners. This group might or might not do something on the future. Only interesting bit is it’s the BRICS.
But a down vote just feels unnecessary. The story is factual. The source is fine. It might be relevant to someone.
Just a simple call-reaponse meme. AnarchyChess ended spreading everywhere. Probably because chess took off with middle and high schoolers during 2020 lockdown.
It’s really location dependent. Some places you’ll see the birds in seconds and others never. You’ll need to know the climate, local weather, soil conditions, what else is growing in the area, time of year, etc. to get an accurate answer.