• gravitas_deficiency
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    8 months ago

    I don’t want ads getting federated to my instance.

    There’s not any room for philosophical debate on that point for me.

    There’s a lot of other reasons to not federate with Threads, but that one is the only one I need to cite to realistically appeal to literally any and all fediverse users with at least a couple neurons in their skulls. And it’s definitely the only argument I need to cite to an instance admin who’s running a lemmy container on their home server.

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      8 months ago

      Ads are the absolute least problematic thing about Meta.

      Unmoderated content, a literal firehose of absolute vile stuff is my biggest fear.

      • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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        8 months ago

        That’s what the block function is for.

        You can block the problem users.

        You can block communities that attract problem users.

        You can even block entire instances of communities that attract problem users (on your own, without the instance choosing for you).

        The Fediverse isn’t completely unmoderated, but it’s not hella huge either. Plenty of moderation issues due to lack of having mods available 24/7 already exist. Just a few weeks ago, CSAM was being spammed all over the place and it took almost an entire day for action to be taken.

        I for one am not in favor of giving my ability to curate my experience myself up to have someone else choose for me, so in almost every case I would be against defederation from the admin level.

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        8 months ago

        Oh, for sure. But you missed part of what I was saying.

        Regardless of where you fall on the political ideological spectrum or how you use social media - or really, anything else about you - I’m pretty confident that nobody wants to have ads force fed to them, so that’s a very easy point to unify on.