I thought it'd be nice for the rest of the world to have a de-america'd instance where there's no discussion of america, certainly no american politics, and no americans are allowed via IP block.

But I think to do that effectively, you'd probably have to defederate from most of the rest of lemmy, and then you've lost most of the federation benefits of being a lemmy instance. However I'm only vaguely familiar with how all of the connections work so maybe someone can correct me.

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[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

You could try but I feel its needlessly complex and antagonistic. Like get the politics are horrible but we dont actually hate american people right? IMO you can get close enough to your goal by filtering American politics out, blocking news/politics communities and then setting up a non america news and non american politics community and boom you've pretty much got an "america free instance"

Once shared blocklists get added I feel this will be easier to setup and distribute.

[–] orbital@infosec.pub 7 points 2 days ago

Thank you for this. I'm American, and I can't stand our politics either. I still try my best to take care of my fellow humans, wherever they call home.