• can@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      It wasn’t initially announced. Later they made a statement via discord 🙄

      It’s only piracy communities they banned though. Not entire instances.

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        1 year ago

        I guess I can understand their reasoning somewhat as the way Lemmy servers fetches data from the fediverse can become a liability, but I’m disappointed about the process and communication.

        That said, I tried switching to some of the lesser restricted instances today, but I just don’t think I can be bothered to spend enough time blocking all the $hit there, so I’ll probably stay here still.

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          1 year ago

          There are tools such as LASIM for transferring your subscriptions and blocks to another account.

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            1 year ago

            That looks nice, I’ll run it on a few accounts anyways, nice to have backups available without having to start from scratch.

            However, Lemmy.World was already defederated from a few instances and from the looks of it I would have to do add a huge amount of new blocks to stay sane on a completely unfiltered instance.

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              1 year ago

              Yeah I’ve only used it for backing up to alts. Maybe make another acct on an instance with a similar defed list? Or does your app support filtering instances outright?