Lately I see a lot of calls do have specific instances defederated for a particular subset of reasons:

  • Don’t like their content
  • Dont like their political leaning
  • Dont like their free speech approach
  • General feeling of being offended
  • I want a safe space!
  • This instance if hurting vulnerable people

I personally find each and every one of these arguments invalid. Everybody has the right to live in an echo chamber, but mandating it for everyone else is something that goes a bit too far.

Has humanity really developed into a situation where words and thoughts are more hurtful than sticks and stones?

Edit: Original context https://slrpnk.net/post/554148

Controversial topic, feel free to discuss!

  • HasturOPM
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    1 year ago

    This would be something sensible to do, looks like a good feature, would you submit that to Lemmy’s GitHub?

    • flor0
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      1 year ago

      It’s a good feature I agree. But as the lemmy creators said they currently have too many github issue requests (100s of issues a day for a team of a few developers). Most of which are feature requests They are currently working on fixing bugs and making the whole thing more robust, not implementing features. I think we should give them a few weeks/months to do that before overworking them