The federation is community owned (which is why you see so many communists here).
Lemmy itself is not a single instance, it’s merely the technical development of the platform itself.
You are a user of the sh.itjust.works domain, who is owned by a real person.
There are bad Lemmy instances you don’t want to be part of, and the owner of sh.itjust.works has blocked that instance, you’ll never even know it was there.
There is no single author of a list of instances which are defederared, but many instances simply piggyback off the blocklist another instance uses (lemmy.world for example).
The federation is community owned (which is why you see so many communists here).
Lemmy itself is not a single instance, it’s merely the technical development of the platform itself.
You are a user of the sh.itjust.works domain, who is owned by a real person.
There are bad Lemmy instances you don’t want to be part of, and the owner of sh.itjust.works has blocked that instance, you’ll never even know it was there.
There is no single author of a list of instances which are defederared, but many instances simply piggyback off the blocklist another instance uses (lemmy.world for example).