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CraigOhMyEggo @lemmy.ml

It's the end of the year and I fully advocate defederating my instance at this point

Forgive the vent, but it used to be that the instances were all simply opinionated in different ways. You could talk to anyone from any instance without anyone getting upset so as long as you were respectful. Being in an instance used to be enviable enough to jest about.

Early on, it went from that to "my opinion should not be pushed back against". For a while, you could not go into ML territory, for example, and challenge their status quo. Recently it has reached another new level, where people will obliterate you simply for being neutral, and this was after they began to break their own rules. Individual cities in my home country are beginning to consider banning the fediverse, and that's only because the country itself stopped short of doing it. I thought the fediverse was supposed to make things easier to enjoy. How can we trust we can look up to it in this social environment?

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  • .ml admins be like:

    • talking neutrally about which .ml admin took a moderative action in a .ml community, referring to them by the pseudonym used within .ml - "you is doxxing lol"
    • connecting the online identities of the same person across multiple sites, in a way that is clearly violating their privacy, to stir up drama within a discussion - "lets do this lmao"

    Yeah. Rules for thee, not for me; users = "cattle to be herded".

    inb4 "but those were different people!" - it doesn't matter when you're part of a team dammit. Users have the right to not be gaslighted on what they're allowed or not to do within a community, even if you own that community.

    It's this sort of shit that made me migrate out of .ml, even if I'm Marxist myself. And I encourage OP to do the same.

  • I thought the fediverse was supposed to make things easier to enjoy

    Rule of everything #1: everything good turns to shit.

    I like my instance (SDF): they don't block any other instance. They let individual users do it for themselves.

    • They dont block anything? Like they dont block pedo shit? I dont wanna have to keep track of whos got pedo shit just to block them i want my instance to do that for me (hence why i dont self host). Other than that i like the idea.

      • They don't even seem to ban abusive users, SDF is really hands off when it comes to the whole instance moderation thing. Which is actually kind of terrifying, means abusive communities stand forever there.

  • It would be fun to see the consequences of defederating the main developer's instance from most other instances. They'd probably begin seriously changing the codebase and licensing.

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