I’m really don’t understand the calls for defederation. Lemmy added per-user instance blocking so people could stop whining and block the instance. There’s no need to have the entire instance defederate instead of just blocking it.
Just think about a user making a post to whatever admin community for their instance. That takes so much more work than just blocking the instance.
Because deplatforming works. Because tolerating intolerance eventually results in the tolerant being extinguished.
If I’m hosting a party and there’s a Nazi on my front lawn, I don’t care if I and my guests can mute them, block them, whatever. I’m going to get rid of them. I don’t want new guests seeing them when they arrive. I don’t want every single person to have to be exposed to the Nazis first before they can then block them out. I don’t want the Nazis to exist at all. Nazis don’t deserve to exist. We went to war to kill Nazis and I’d vote to do it again if I could.
It’s our house. Our community. No. Fucking. Nazis. No toxicity. We don’t have to suffer them to exist.
Then block the instance?
I’m really don’t understand the calls for defederation. Lemmy added per-user instance blocking so people could stop whining and block the instance. There’s no need to have the entire instance defederate instead of just blocking it.
Just think about a user making a post to whatever admin community for their instance. That takes so much more work than just blocking the instance.
Because deplatforming works. Because tolerating intolerance eventually results in the tolerant being extinguished.
If I’m hosting a party and there’s a Nazi on my front lawn, I don’t care if I and my guests can mute them, block them, whatever. I’m going to get rid of them. I don’t want new guests seeing them when they arrive. I don’t want every single person to have to be exposed to the Nazis first before they can then block them out. I don’t want the Nazis to exist at all. Nazis don’t deserve to exist. We went to war to kill Nazis and I’d vote to do it again if I could.
It’s our house. Our community. No. Fucking. Nazis. No toxicity. We don’t have to suffer them to exist.