Users are free to download Threads and go lick zucc’s balls if they so desire, instances are just protecting themselves and the responsability that comes with it.
It’s getting tired reading so many zucc apologist, I swear they are bots or accounts created for that purpose
Not sure now, but at the time they had 4 moderators for the whole instance, this while the big Reddit migration was happening so it was a bomb waiting to blowup, also they’ve stated before that they want/plan to make it a safespace so they are not exactly made for federation since they’ll have to end up blocking a lot of instances to achieve that.
Also if instance A goes down you still have instance B.
If emulation would shift to AMD it would be a huge push, at least it’s what keeps me with Nvidia since most emulators run a lot better or they are faster to support those cards.
That seems very contradictory to me if it’s true, but I’m still trying to make sense of it, so maybe there’s something I’m missing.
Basically they are trying to keep the propaganda machine going, it won’t make sense.
Yes, absolutely. They can do whatever they want on their server, including censoring opposing political viewpoints. I can say I think that’s a bad thing to do, because to me, using control of a platform to censor your opponents’ political viewpoints is in fact very bad. I mean if they actually do support Russia and the CCP, then I guess it’s not surprising if they’re okay with censoring opposing views, but to me, it’s wrong. They can do it – people can do a lot of things – but it doesn’t mean that every thing a person can choose to do is right.
Just to be an ass: there is no absolute right or wrong, to them we are in the wrong and should submit to their ideas, to us they are wrong for trying to censor and limit discussion.
This isn’t that though. The phrase is “prior restraint.” If I go out and accuse someone of something, and it’s not true and they sue me for libel and prove me wrong and I’m punished for it, that’s consequences. If someone’s not allowing the accusation to exist in the first place, that’s not free speech with consequences, that’s someone controlling and approving beforehand what I’m allowed and not allowed to say
Oh right, then it was a phrasing problem as we agree on that.
if you did that with that amount of power, what are you going to do if you wind up later on with more power?
I mean… just look around and there are many examples and multipying.
At least for this context, it’s not so big because the users can ditch that instance and register at a different one, if they actually get extreme they’ll just get defederated or if they defederate too many instances they will isolate themselves and the server software can be forked, so there’s at least some safes in place.
They own and federate with lemmygrad, also were the owners/mods of r/comunism and the complains seem to come from way before (from those that came before the reddit blackout), it’s not sketchy or coincidential, it’s deliberated.
I don’t agree with your last statement, in the end the instance belongs to someone else and they placed rules that we agreed to follow the moment we joined.
Just like with everything else, being free to say whatever you want doesn’t mean being free of consequences.
In other comment they linked to the issue for the devs to fix/add.
Being something inspired in Reddit I was expecting to have that already, I like games but I don’t care about a lot of the trailers or games so hidding them would really help clear my feed without blocking an instance or a user (specilly when it’s the main user posting news and trailers in general, I don’t want to block them).
Right now it’s only possible to block communities and users, no way for a user to block an entire instance.
A couple of days before the reddit blackout there were some posts pointing out examples of the main lemmy instance mods/devs banning people and censoring news/comments that tried to criticise the CCP, it was easy to confirm because there’s the modlog, I don’t know if it’s still there or if they are still doing it, but there’s a precedent.
Also they host and federate with lemmygrad.
Still there’s no real worry about it, the rest of the instances (specially those created by the reddit blackout) are not controlled or manipulated by those devs (most if not all of them already block lemmygrad). Also I think anyone could make their own fork of the server software, not sure about how open is the software.
Oh yeah, I agree they are unpredictable, I don’t count on it but I don’t doubt it would be an easy target
Called it.
Still he’s going to end up with a site with lesser quality and mods that will have a harder time to moderate until the supposed new tools actually work (if they actually work).
Honestly? I think 4chan could have a field day trolling in there like they love to do.
Basically a server owner can block an entire server from their own if they don’t agree with the content or userbase they cater to.
It’s a double-edge sword since a ban-happy server could isolate itself from the fediverse or create a worse echo-chamber; lucky for us, we can just create a new account in another server and just leave that one behind.
It’s better not to attach yourself to your account and just think of it as disposable.
It honestly surprises me they haven’t blocked other instances yet, it’s been pointed out multiple times and it would be the only way to censor something that isn’t in their instance
And it’s still hard to call it a gift, it’s more of an imposition.