I’m not citing the author to add credibility, just to give credit.
I’m not citing the author to add credibility, just to give credit.
Moderation is when you take down material because the recipient doesn’t want to see it. Censorship is when you take down content because you don’t want the recipient to see it, regardless of how the recipient feels about it.
— vintermann, Hacker News
I find it disappointing that everyone says how the Fediverse will allow all kinds of social media, personal blogs and other things to be interconnected, but in the end it kinda sorta works for Twitter clones and barely works for anything else.
You literally said “instead of algorithms”, implying that algorithms would be replaced.
But SearxNG doesn’t have the nice features like bangs, redirects, changing the priority of domains, custom CSS, lenses, etc.
Kagi has clearly stated that the AI features will always be optional and the engine is designed to be useful without them.
The two-tier reply system on SO is really useful and would be harder to implement – the replies to the questions, but also replies to the posts/replies. I don’t know how that would look if starting from Lemmy as a base.
How so? Lemmy allows unlimited nesting of replies, which is even better.
Do you also urge your e-mail provider to block e-mails from Meta for all users?
I just wouldnt want to see sneaky “promoted” posts aka ads
Nobody is forcing you to follow users/communities on Threads.
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I have no idea what you’re trying to say.
Who is the judge of these blocklists?
The Ministry of Truth, of course.
Yeah, I know that and how the same people who support defederation love to complain about Gmail and Outlook blocking their home server.
E-mail is also a federated protocol. Imagine if every time you wanted to send an e-mail, you had to check whether your provider likes the recipient’s provider and if not, create an account at the recipient’s provider (if that’s even possible).
What exactly is the problem with a bigot replying to you if you don’t see the reply?
Also, they can see the content even if you defederate, because it’s public.
Alright. To quote your original comment:
Yes, and thus you have one giant mega community in which every bigot can access anyone and everyone else.
How would removing defederation result in a situation where “every bigot can access anyone and everyone else” if user-level instance blocking was still a thing?
All I’m trying to say is that if you don’t have the privilege of having configuration access to a network, you can’t “just” host an instance, contrary to your argument that anyone can host an instance for just a little money.
Your original point was that a fediverse without instance blocks would be bad, which is irrelevant to the post because the OP is not advocating for a fediverse without instance blocks:
If you just buy a computer, you can run a Lemmy instance on it, but there will be no way to connect to it from outside your local network, making it pretty much useless. If you want it to work as an actual server, as far as I’m aware, you need to configure the router through which it’s connected to the internet to allow this.
But the OP specifically talked about how the new ability to block instances can replace defederation, so it’s clear what they had in mind.
What is ridiculous about it? What do you see as the difference between moderation and censorship?