Looks like the work of some junior edgelord.
meldroc
joined 2 years ago
Exactly. Lemmy might give you the warning "This may be incomplete, view on the original instance", but if the only posts missing are ones from defederated neo-Nazi instances, not seeing them is indeed a feature rather than a bug.
If things get big enough that hobbyist instance owners are getting overwhelmed, it might be a good idea to organize a nonprofit, under the NPR business model. Not collecting data or breaking your brain with advertisements, though periodically, they're gonna have to go hat in hand, and beg users to feed their Patreon. Hey, I'm more than happy to throw a little in!
Nice thing about this business model is that being a nonprofit, the point of its existence is to fulfill its mission (to help independent distributed social media thrive), instead of to make money for owners/shareholders.
There's several clients in the works - I'll be looking at Sync for Lemmy, as I was a customer of Sync for Reddit.
The only difference between today's MAGA movement and the OG Nazis is the branding.
In the case of that Detonating Craniums board, the content is indeed abusive. Having had the poor taste to peek, (NSFW, trigger: bigotry)
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I saw a "joke" about throwing trans people into a woodchipper. Yeah, not funny. That's what they do - make it acceptable to murder people who are different.
They're completely despicable. They need full defederation.
My vote: defederate.
Exploding-heads.com is full of disgusting, hateful, toxic shit.
Besides, it's not banning, it's defederating. If you have the bad taste to want to see that bigoted dumpster fire, you can always go over there. We don't need it over here.
But we all know that the chuds aren't happy staying in their little shitholes. They want to bring the shit here even though we've plainly said we don't want it.
They want to bully, and they want to recruit new chuds. Don't let them use sh.itjust.works for that.
Deplatforming works, and that's why all the fashies are having a screaming tantrum. Fascism can't spread if the rest of us don't let them use our spaces for that.
Exactly - for example with weed subs. A lot got summarily banned, the rest NSFW'd, because Spez wants Reddit G-rated for the IPO.
Over here, a Mormon instance defederating a weed-oriented instance isn't going to shut down the stoners' community.
If you don't like the way an instance curates content, switch to a different instance, or make your own instance and curate content yourself.
The people screaming about free speech for bigots & fascists seem to neglect the free speech of the instance owners and admins.
They're doing this out of the kindness of their hearts. Paying for bandwidth and servers. Donating their time to create the software, work out the kinks, and moderate the communities so we don't strangle each other.
From their perspective: Would you want to use your money and time to rebroadcast Nazism or similarly toxic ideology? Because that's what they're being asked, and most of them say "HELL NO!" When the chuds are demanding that these people rebroadcast such crap, it's like they're asking these admins to do a Hitler salute with them.
This is their space. They have free speech rights too. That's what curation is, free speech. You send a message by the choice of messages you rebroadcast or refuse to rebroadcast.
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Wouldn't put it past him...