I dont like drama

Do we have a way to combine feeds yet? I don't know of one. So it's kinda annoying to jump from account to account to make sure your seeing everything.

I'm not sure there is. Personally, I wish there were a way for an individual to block entire instances since I'm a terminally online individual with 3 accounts who sorts by all -> new for content :P
I get what you're saying, and hopefully it's a feature that gets added. I'm sure eventually it will, or maybe someone will make an app or an add-on
- I definitely can block inetances, I did with one click. Maybe it's the app I use? (Connect)
  I still see comments from it's users but they're behind a (comment from blocked instance) button.
  
  I believe it's a per-app feature. After switching over to Eternity (Infinity for Lemmy) I had to do my Blocklist again. Also each app handles blocked instances differently, and I think connect does it the best with how it still shows the comments, but not posts.
  
  Interesting. I use Jerboa, which makes it easy to block communities, but not entire instances. I'd check out connect, but I browse just as often in a desktop browser, so it would be really nice to have consistency.
  It's not that big a deal to me, just a feature that would be nice to have imo
  
  Sync lets you block entire instances, and that includes the comments.
  It's a cool self federation
  
  I don't see the blocked comments or posts with the Eternity app.
  ...But I also can't make my own posts yet....
  Edit: wait... Not sure if it still shows comments from people on instances I've blocked.
- The "block instance" feature is apparently in the pipeline for Lemmy.
  Kbin currently allows you to block entire instances, so that's nice.
  
  Oh, that's good news! I know it's been a request on github for quite some time.
- sorts by all -> new for content :P
  ^ this poster right here, officer
Yes, actually! Liftoff for Lemmy is still in early development, but you can get it on iOS, Android, Windows, and Linux, and it provides precisely this feature. There are a lot of features that Liftoff is yet to incorporate, probably most notably moderator tools and support for adding Kbin accounts -- but give it a try regardless, and do what you can to contribute to its further development. Liftoff is an app with a lot of promise and a surprising amount of functionality already this early in its development.
It's worth noting that Liftoff is a fork of the now abandoned project Lemmur, which I believe was the first Lemmy client to support combining feeds.
- Cool thanks for the heads up!
I'm building this into an app right now, I've got an android beta open if you're interested in helping decide the course of it.
Right now it just does the normal stuff with some extra features and lots of filters, but the goal has always been to build custom feeds on your device from a lot of individual sources. I'm redesigning stuff under the hood with that and support for other fediverse integration, I'm looking at kbin and mastodon in the near term, but I think I want pixelfed and maybe friendica down the road
The name is Luna, let me know if you want a link
- Cool, I can give it a try if you'd like!
Sure, but keep in mind the comparison to any non-federated site has to be that you had no other instances to jump to in the first place.
- Yeah, banned groups would need to move to a different platform.
Summit for Lemmy supports multi-communities however it still doesn't support multi-communities from multiple instances at the moment unfortunately.

Social media needs to be as easy as possible if you're going to reach the masses. Most people do not give a shit enough to create 3 accounts; they'll just leave.

That's just fine with me. Quality > quantity
Some of the best forums I use have just a handful of active users
- But quantity and quality are linked. If only, say, 0.1% of people will post high quality content, that means you need to attract a thousand people to get a high quality poster. You can't just put up a sign that says "high quality posters only". Plenty of quality posters also want an audience, so they'll go where the people are and leave if that audience isn't there.
  
  This. I love reddit r/askhistorians and r/askphilosophy. But the vast fkn majority of people are not qualified to answer historical or philosophical questions. In these cases you need a lot of people on the site.
  
  Ok, and I'll go where I like the most people I like ¯(ツ)_/¯
  I left reddit for many reasons. I don't want most of those people here.
  So, to be blunt, I don't care
  
  So circling back then, if the high quality posters leave here, sure you'll leave with them and you'll be fine, but it still hurts the fediverse if they leave.
- Cutting out huge swaths of users at once just stifles the content including the small percentage of actually quality content. You can't pick out and keep the good stuff when you cut off whole instances. It also brings down the engagement in your own content.
  Take your favorite small forum and now split it according to political opinion, now split it again according to if users pirate movies(lol). Your forum is now dead since no one likes speaking into the void.
  We should be treasuring the connections, not putting up walls because it makes the circle jerk easier.

I'm high as fuck right now

I’m high as fuck AND on three instances rn. I win, right?
- You don't win Lemmy until you have an account on every public instance!
  Also, I'm slightly high, but "as fuck" would be a major exaggeration on my part

I don't get it either. Defederation is a tool just like banning or spam prevention. If it's unused it's pointless to have.

But you don't ban everyone for a single offense just like to don't defederate lightly. If you do then people will move elsewhere and the problem resolves itself

Too many people never used forums and think every site needs to talk to every site.

Forums died for a reason. Reddit took over that space for me because it was one place to see everything. Federation is a better version of that. Decentralized and connected is how the Internet should be
- Reddit took over because threading on forums was awful. The centralization was just a nice bonus imo.
  
  I added the 'for me' to curb the pedants, but it seems you still found your way. Your experience doesn't invalidate mine, sorry.
  
  Sorry I missed that. My bad. Fwiw I agree. I like having all my gaming subs grouped together.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: If instances weren't supposed to be ever defederate, then we wouldn't have the tool. In the absence of real moderation/admin tools it's going to get used more frequently. And that's the admin owner's right!

I would say that a big part of the issue is the difficulty in transferring one's account. Ignoring the fact that one simply can't transfer their posts, trying to manually copy all previously subscribed communities to a new account is a rather tedious task. I am aware that there exists scripts that can automate that process, but I don't think that it's fair to expect that the userbase should run 3rd party scripts. Until account transfer is properly implemented, defederation will continue to be a major issue.

The migration must be perfect, which means posts, comments and up/downvotes from the source instance must appear as if they've always been on the target instance.

I think the best part of the fed is that you can see ALL the content from the other instances. I personally feel like its what the internet is supposed to be.

I just use one, but AFAICT they don't defederate, they haven't even defederated anyone on their mastodon instance and that's had a lot longer to have all manner of inter-instance bullshit develop.