I dont like tankies or tories any more than the next person, but breaking federation is just wrong.
I dont want to have to make a separate account just to get around that, mainly because this is actually already my account for getting around that!
Its quite easy to block a community at user level, if needed, and we are not the target of any spam, but now we users have lost the option of the ability to interact forever with a corner of the threadiverse, which i think is not cool.
If its just me thinking this way, fine, i’ll just maintain several accounts, but i would hope its not, because its feeling like instances are gettinh pretty triggerhappy with the block button https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances/tree/main
Personally. I’d hate to remain on an instance that blocks purely for political opinion. That seems entirely down to the communities to block members from posting if they cannot keep thier politics within appropriate coms.
But federation very much leaves indeviduals prown to the laws of thier nation. Or people willing to sue for attacks. Unlike the likes of reddit. Indevidual instance owners maybe very much at risk from court case. As most won’t have. Or be able to afford the lawers to fight off invalid claims. This really means NSFW is definatly to wide of a definition to allow / block. One would hope the system allows communities rather then just instances to be blocked. As it seems extream to block everyone on an instamce if that instances has different rules to your own nation.
As a community admin. I assume/abide by I have a duty to follow the rules of the instances when I create communities. Rule 1 here is entirely why I chose this instance to create the 3 small coms I have.
Back in my reddit days. I was a strong malesupporter of 2x. It seems clear that 2x would need much more control avoid some of the attacks they see on reddit.
But I am not sure the current situation with lemmy provides that option.
Maybe the solution is to ask lemmy developers to provide much more granularity with blocking.
IF @tom was able to set certain instances as blocked or monitored. Where if someone wanted to add an community from a monitored instance. Then it would tell them they have to wait for admin approval.
This way members can always look at other communities directly on the instance. They justca tub or post.
This would allow small instance runners to avoid being attacked under local laws. While still allowing members to host from instances known to allow questionable content.
Typing in the pub. I’ll read through and tidy this up later. ;)