You keep asking questions though… so I kept answering them:-P. I feel like we got some addditional clarity on your only focusing on the top 20 instances.

For me, writing things such as "many instances are having federation issues with LW' lacks nuance, and people less aware of the context could just read this with "well, the whole thing does not work anyway, I'll just quit this place", which is probably not the message we want to convey.

That's why I focus on the top 20, because that's where the vast majority of the userbase is, and in those instances, only aussie.zone really experiences federation issues due to LW size (pg.dev is a different issue, it's their own database that is corrupted)

Though for myself, the longer this goes on the less faith I have that it will ever be fixed whilst remaining dependent upon the Lemmy.ml + lemmygrad.ml admins & devs to help accomplish the goals of bringing in more mainstream normies from the Western civilization that they so abhor and constantly ridicule. Why should they? They themselves do not want that. It is a harsh truth but we are on their platform, and that’s that. We will receive what they deign to offer. Which is why I am trying now to help PieFed thrive, despite how far behind it is, and it would be great to see Sublinks arrive as well.

That's probably the consensus among the community. But as we all know, there are only so many people interested in developing Lemmy alternatives.

About the lemm.ee vs lemmy.cafe choice for instance suggestion, would you like to open a thread on https://piefed.social/c/fedigrow@lemm.ee ? That way we can have more people voicing their opinions on the matter.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I started gathering some thoughts to make a post - I had intended !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca but it could be cross-posted, or whatever - about ways to block an instance. I got stuck with Mbin but finally have what I need there. The thing is: I lack the knowledge of which Lemmy apps will allow you to implement user blocks - and I mean the full defederation kind, not just the mere "community blocking" that does not block the comment replies of users from those instances. Do you know more about that? If you could give me a paragraph or table or link to point to or some such, then perhaps this weekend I could try to write that post.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

No idea about that point specifically unfortunately. My idea was more to discuss the instance choice rather than the blocking.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 1 points 2 hours ago

At this point, the only way to implement blocking is to switch instances, it would seem. Or at least get an app, though that is the part that I know the least about. I switched instances myself specifically for this feature - and we've been saying how superb Discuss.Online is even, all the more notable for a smaller instance! - but I'm not sure how many others would think similarly. Still, they could be told that it's an option. Or perhaps !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca is almost dead at this point, with so few posts? Then again it's not the number that matters, if the content is relevant.