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  • what? no. That would require that the governing body of the police were itself anarchist… which is a paradox.

    however, if the police did that then said anarchist would have to follow the establishment’s rules in order to fight back and win. If said anarchist were always 100% true to their beliefs then they would not go the route of abiding the laws because they are against the establishment in every way. they would want to fight back, but not by following the rules.

    in your scenario, you made the police out to be anarchists themselves which is a bit backward. the police are fascist, or any other totalitarianism or similar.










  • I think we’re describing the same thing. I’m saying the ability is already here and you’re saying perhaps someone should purpose-build this because the other instances that this applies to are only doing it by chance.

    I’ve been a proponent of having Lemmy instances that have only a couple of communities that are specific to admin things for that instance. Then they are just filled with users who interact with content on other instances. Personally, I was thinking about this from a performance standpoint, but it also makes sense from a social gathering standpoint as well.

    I’m planning on giving a go at making my own instance over the summer (hopefully soon) and exploring what things I might want to do after that. I’d love to make some medium-sized instances assuming I can gather enough funds to support 1 or more servers for the project. Your idea does give me new things to think about in terms of organizing and attracting an instance user base. I was initially thinking it would be based on topics, but being based on something like reputation would likely be even more valuable to many.


  • can’t users from any other instance already do this?

    beehaw blocks world so they can’t see each other but users from other instances can still see both. I’m currently on lemmy.one and I’m subbed to comms at both beehaw and LWorld.

    they only problem i see is for users in those specific instances as they can’t see one another, but everyone else can see both.

    i think the result here is that beehaw will be limiting itself. probably fine as they are overwhelmed right now anyway. it seems that’s what they wanted to do from the start as well. if they begin blocking even more instances things will get smaller for them.

    but hey, that’s the beauty of the fediverse. if you want an instance that does exactly what you want then go for it. make your own. link to whoever you want and block whoever you want

    speaking of that, are users getting more ways to block instances and communities? I’d like to have all the tools to customize my feed. there’s no AI doing it for me (which is good) so i need the ability to do it myself