I’m the guy that left reddit 10 years ago during the Elen Pao thing and never returned, moving from free speech platform to free speech platform. Putting up with literal nazis whom I did not in any way agree with because they were censored and banned while I was there for ideological reasons.
We are not the same.
I don’t have to deny being an asshole, because being an asshole is subjective. I really don’t give a shit what online randos think of me.
So you don’t understand the point of federation then? It’s not to have one big Reddit clone full of Reddit bullshit and Reddit corruption. It was to have countless little homes combined together to make a whole, but what we have at the moment is Reddit bullshit but worse.
Wouldn’t be an issue if federation was happening with a whole bunch of tiny instances, but it’s one giant and then a few other smaller ones.
I don’t care if I’m wanted or not. I care if a large portion of the fediverse sees fit to censor opinions based on their feelings. Fine if you’re moderator on a community based around something that doesn’t fit your views but it shouldn’t work the same for the entire instance. And it’s only really an issue because lemmy.world It’s like 90% of the fediverse. If it worked like it was originally designed, there wouldn’t be massive controlling interests like Lemmy.world.
No. Just correcting you. I’ve been here all along. I don’t give a shit.
It is when that person is banned from all unrelated communities. Definitely censorship.
Well it’s fucking wrong. An issue in federation I suppose.
It has never been just the government that’s only in regards to the first amendment.
They said all that about a bunch of alternative media that was banned from all money processing. Oh, you can’t use the banks. Why don’t you just make your own? While I don’t agree with most of the things those kind of people said, I also do not agree with completely banning their speech. All that does is push them into the shadows and that’s how Donald Trump gets elected.
What are you talking about? I have over 1,800 comments.
You seem to misunderstand what censorship is.
Cool, so why don’t you adjust to me instead? It’s just as easy right?
Mine is a fairly broadly held opinion in the general public. Not well represented in niche online spaces though.
I must have pissed in an admin’s Wheaties in their favorite community.
It doesn’t work so well when the majority of people are concentrated in one or another. It’s like going into a Reddit admins pet project sub and then getting banned completely on Reddit because you broke that sub’s rules.
Individual communities, sure, but not entire massive general instances. That’s beyond stupid.
And yet I’m not banned from there. Only massive general instances.
Sounds like censorship to me. I’m from the old internet where if you didn’t like what somebody had to say you ignored them. Current internet is far too soft and full of safe spaces which will ban anybody for the slightest offenses.
I don’t all my problems are with large fediverse servers having so much power to shut out things they don’t like. Having such large servers is a major issue for diversity of thought. That’s all.