Let’s also not ignore the fact that these communities literally prohibit Links or content from being posted to them. So even if people make the Federation argument about cross-hosting it’s all moot in the end because the community doesn’t allow it in the first place.

Here is a link to the rules of the Piracy community you will notice if you have any form of reading comprehension (or if you actually read it and aren’t just trolling, like many people here) that rule 3 specifically prohibits linking to or hosting files, which many people making the federated hosting argument seem to leave out of the equation, likely because it destroys their argument altogether since their argument is about illegal content being hosted, but no illegal content is hosted in the first place (and any that is usually is removed by the mods for breaking the rules, just like it is here on Lemmy.world).

I’m pretty sure bot accounts are always displayed, they use the bot flag to block the bots from communities that mods otherwise might not want them in.

Aww you didn’t seem to like what I said did you, darling. I’m not planning on not saying things just because it bothers you, Stay mad, trolls 😎 🏳️‍⚧️

This is a bit off-topic but why do you have a bot account flag when you seem to be commenting as a normal user?

Seems to be a lot of people making assumptions in the comments here ☹️

Decentralized will always be better than centralized. Though I will agree that activitypub isn’t great for this. Don’t know if we can do better though than ActivityPub though, seems like the best Decentralization solution I’ve seen but it’s still not great, could be much better IMO.

People all over this thread trying to say they linked to content clearly haven’t been there, they absolutely do not link to content directly and it’s even against their rules, so if you make an argument about “lemmy.world can’t host illegal content” or “links are illegal content” these are Moot points because they neither host content on that server, nor directly link to it.

They probably won’t if it’s individual people, though they are donation funded so if they show their supporters that they don’t care those supporters might stop financially supporting lemmy.world. So telling them they should just leave because you don’t care or handing out petty bans like “let me help you” isn’t going to inspire these people to continue contributing donations.

This website doesn’t make a profit, but that’s all the more reason there should be an effort to not make people hate them, because I don’t know anyone who would enthusiastically donate to support people or an organization they hate.