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Dang this really sucks :/ i understand why it's important from a modding perspective. I guess I'll need to open an account elsewhere and get a client with multi account support

Yea. I'm going to be honest, I disagree with this decision immensely. There just aren't enough posts and comments here alone to really keep from my whole experience here.

The whole point of federation is to be able to branch out as I see it. Half of the communities I'm subbed to are on the places being banned, so it sorta breaks the whole point of federation to me at least. I get why mods are doing it and think it's definitely their right to do so, but as an end user, it reaaaally sucks and will likely make me make an account elsewhere as my primary.

At least for me at least, I personally err on the side of having more freedom to look into places even if that means dealing with a couple of assholes.

This decision was about users from other instances coming here and causing trouble, not beehaw users going elsewhere. The intent isn't to keep users siloed in here. Unfortunately, lemmy currently only supports two modes of interaction between instances: either you federate, or you don't. More technologically mature fediverse platforms like mastodon have more nuanced options, and hopefully we'll get similar options in lemmy soon that will allow, e.g., beehaw users out onto these instances without letting everyone on those instances in here.

I know the intent isn't to keep us siloed here, but unfortunately that's the end result. Personally, I'd rather deal with trolls than defeat the whole purpose of the fediverse. If I wanted a small walled garden, I'd have gone to raddle.me or tildes. The mods absolutely have good intentions here, but it's a bit smothering

If you have jerboa you can have the multi accounts feature to still access what ever instances you would like pretty seamlessly. I think the long term goal is more mod tools so that there doesn't need to be a giant wall but maybe some boarder patrol to keep the trolls out.

I think I'm probably being an idiot, but I have Jerboa and can't see where to add a second account?

There's a little menu in the top left corner when you're on the main/front page that shows up when you first open the app. Click that, then there should be a little plus sign and something that says 'add account.' Tap that, then it asks you for the instance link, your username, and password. Hopefully that helps!

Sorry to continue this OT thread; I am a bit of a dumbass and also completely new to Lemmy/fedi (this is actually my first post whee). Just downloaded Jerboa and have figured out how to add multiple accounts, but can't find one of my other instances in the instance drop-down (lemmy.blahaj.zone? Not sure if this the instance name or not...) Does Jerboa not have all instances yet or maybe am I just utterly confused about the naming (probably)?