So there are a few possible reasons I can see with this

1. The fear is truly unfounded
2. The fear is founded, but .cafe being so small, he doesn’t care to lend a hand and can use it for examples should this fear conversation become more serious. Dessalines is a lot of things, but he’s not dumb
3. The fear is founded, but because it’s an issue that could potentially affect any instance large or small they decided to deal with it. Vs say if .world decided to defederate and then ran into an issue that mostly just affected them because of their size, maybe they’ll “give the run around” instead or ignore the issue until it affects an instance they care about

Sorry if I phrased it weirdly, I didn’t mean to imply that threats had been made (which I mean, dessalines is smarter than that, because like you said it would blow the Lemmy-verse up if he actually made a threat), but rather it’s a fear that’s out there.

But like I said, I have confirmation of that fear in a DM from a major instance admin. Whether or not that fear is founded and justified or not, is up for debate. But it exists and it’s a factor in the decision making process

I don’t really consider infosec.pub to be a “major” instance, it’s only at ~300 MAUs iirc, by “major” I’m thinking .world or SJW or blahaj

In any case, I’m almost positive I’ve seen it mentioned publicly in one of those big threads, maybe the donation ones a few months back. It was also told to me point blank by an admin of one of said major instances in a DM, but I am unsure how or even if I can release that considering it was told to me in private

Well the PF instances don’t really have an excuse, though iirc the flagship PF does defed (or maybe it was a default block?) from the entire Triad

But it has come up that some major instances have a big concern in that if they defed from .ml dessalines will pull back support from them in retaliation

Which is always a fantastic healthy green flag of a relationship/s

Am I ootl on something with blahaj? It’s been a fine instance imo

Smiling Friends meme = Automatic Upvote

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This is a windows admin, not a Linux admin :P

Nutomic is like the second in command and word around the cooler is hes the one that does the bulk of the coding work. They definitely have shared values, with the exception of his transphobia.

He doesn’t do a whole lot as far as admining .ml goes so isn’t featured as much or ever actually now that I think about it

If you’ve been site banned from .ml, then .ml users will not be able to see you. There is also a way to site-ban a user in a way that they also won’t be able to see your content prior to the ban issuance as well. Called a siteban with purge

It’s pretty easy, don’t give them money, block the .ml instance

Hey hey hey, I’m gonna need you to step OFF my stamets 😤😤

Lol np, it’s what I’m here for

Lol I do when I’m building something, usually I need these stupid programmers to fix manufacturer crap

Like today’s meme being brought to you by Asus™ Where you have a 50/50 shot on if our shitty ass BMC update process bricks it!

Absolutely! :) I also noticed the request for mods post in !xbox@lemmy.zip but I forgot to comment in it, but I can also mod that one too

It’s an interesting thought, might need a bridge to bridge the bridge lol

Though there would almost certainly be a performance hit needing to go through so many layers

Homelabsales, non-existent here

Harvesting of posts to help niche comms here, like !undervalehotel@lemmy.cafe

Occasional Threadiverse advocations

for me the annoyance was that it was reposts from .ml to .world, not even uplifting smaller instances

I actually did prioritize smaller instances first in most cases, but you’ll be happy to know thanks to their utter failure of dealing with JL I have entirely ceased posting to .world comms and recreating ones I run into that have no off-world off-ml alternative. @cm0002@lemmy.world is retired