I made two posts on !anime@lemmy.ml, neither are visible on both instances lemmy.ml [http://lemmy.ml] are recommending. beehaw.org [http://beehaw.org] has already become a much bigger instance and they ban lemmygrad, we’re already invisible to half the people using lemmy. It will keep getting worse, at some point you’ll need to maintain two separate instance accounts and you’ll consider dropping one of them.
would the lemmy admins then be able to just come and delete us like :reddit-logo: did if we start talking about things they don't like, such as burning american troops?
No. At worst they could defederate Hexbear and we'd be back to the current status quo.
This is the advantage to federation in a nutshell. Hexbear admins have complete control over our instance and other instance admins have complete control over theirs. So long as the relationship between instances is seen as tenable the users can interact with one another's content.
If an instance becomes untenable to one another they can de-federate.
in addition to what @riseuppikmin said, the lemmy.ml admins are comrades and would likely not do that, though they will probably enforce some basic ground rules when posting on their comms (ours will stay the same)
would the lemmy admins then be able to just come and delete us like :reddit-logo: did if we start talking about things they don't like, such as burning american troops?
No. At worst they could defederate Hexbear and we'd be back to the current status quo.
This is the advantage to federation in a nutshell. Hexbear admins have complete control over our instance and other instance admins have complete control over theirs. So long as the relationship between instances is seen as tenable the users can interact with one another's content.
If an instance becomes untenable to one another they can de-federate.
in addition to what @riseuppikmin said, the lemmy.ml admins are comrades and would likely not do that, though they will probably enforce some basic ground rules when posting on their comms (ours will stay the same)