My biggest issue with them is the big (ha) custom emoji they use. However I've heard they're meant to be smaller and this is a lemmy bug that will soon be fixed. I'm content blocking users/communities at the user level until I personally see more egregious content from them.
Note: I'm basing this off my personal interactions with their users generally in comment sections. I'm not browsing their communities. At most I find them slightly obnoxious but personally that doesn't justify cutting them out of my experience entirely just yet.
But more seriously, this wasn't a vote for us to have. We hadn't actually defederated from them in the first place. Their instance is one of the few set to whitelist only. Instead of federating with everyone by default and defederating by adding URLs to a blacklist, they exclusively select instances to federate with by their admins manually adding them to their allow list.
So it was their instance that decided to add us to their list of instances they'll interact with. No change was made at sh.itjust.works without local user consultation. If you have concerns with this there is a recent discussion post at the !agora@sh.itjust.works
Thank you, those communities aren't very serious so I didn't even think of that. Users on the lemmygrad screenshot community do seem to be spending too much energy on something they dislike but that's up to them. Better they have a place to contain it. As for the other, I'm still not sure I really understand it, but it doesn't seem like anything worth hating an entire instance over.
ETA: those are communities hosted here though, that's nothing to do with our federation policies. I guess their silence speaks volumes here.
You're welcome. Most people were too busy complaining. Sync just added instance browsing and earlier I happened to be curious enough to check hexbear and saw the thread discussing it. Couldn't find it when I went back to look though.
·10 months ago
I'm not happy to learn any of this but thank you for answering my question.