Do you know any Lemmy instances not federated with other ones, living by themselves? Do you know any interesting or creative use case for a not federated instance?

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[–] AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 23 points 5 days ago (5 children)

I didn't think your question is as absurd as everyone is acting like it is. It's absolutely a silly thing to do, but I think a lot of the arguments against doing so would also apply to Mastodon, and wasn't it revealed that that Trump's garbage dump was running defedded Masto?

If you find one, I assume there will be many more terrible choices beyond just using Lemmy, and it's not somewhere you'll want to be.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 13 points 5 days ago

Why is it a silly thing to do? A non-federating lemmy instance is just another content aggregator site like Reddit.

In many ways, it's a better experience than federated Lemmy. It's just harder to recruit members.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago

Well now hang on. What if you were in 8th grade, and started your own Lemmy instance, with no outside sources, and then invite all your classmates? And then all 30 of you have a blog and you all post individual blog posts.

Seems like a very specialized use of it, and I'm not sure if teens today would be interested in that......but you COULD.

[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I haven't checked around since the reddit API fiasco, but there were unfederated Lemmy instances. As Diva mentions in more detail, Hexbear used to be unfederated and it was the largest of all instances. Even without federation, it's a viable, actively developed content aggregator. So I wouldn't call it silly, it's a valid choice.

and wasn’t it revealed that that Trump’s garbage dump was running defedded Masto?

Gab is also a Mastodon fork, which was originally defederated before being blocked from most instances and bullied by the remaining freeze peach instances, so they mechanically removed the federation code.

I've also heard some special interest communities on Mastodon intentionally defederate from the broader network for privacy reasons.

[–] Orbituary@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

Federation didn't create lemmy.