I dont like tankies or tories any more than the next person, but breaking federation is just wrong.
I dont want to have to make a separate account just to get around that, mainly because this is actually already my account for getting around that!
Its quite easy to block a community at user level, if needed, and we are not the target of any spam, but now we users have lost the option of the ability to interact forever with a corner of the threadiverse, which i think is not cool.
If its just me thinking this way, fine, i’ll just maintain several accounts, but i would hope its not, because its feeling like instances are gettinh pretty triggerhappy with the block button https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances/tree/main
But other lemmy’s content isn’t copied into @tom’s servers, is it?
Oh, actually, yeah stuff I’ve subscribed to from beehaw, for example, is appearing on my feed on feddit.uk, so at least the post title and other headers that appear directly in my feed must have been synced to the feddit.uk server to generate the list of posts.
After that anything that I read by clicking, like the full text of the post, can be hosted on its original instance and my web browser could fetch it when I click.