I mean, if that’s the only rule that goes against the userbase, I’d be surprised. Early r3ddit was so wide open for so long, but as it grew so did the rules. With where we are here we will see off the wall rules imposed, posts removed, mod abuse, users and communities banned, etc. It’s just part of the growing process. Kind of tough but it has got to be an uphill battle to run a NSFW only instance with all that brings with it
With the cost of entry being so low for a lemmy instance, I could see people hosting their own niche areas that have no rules and just federating but who knows if even that will be allowed
as i understand it each server can choose who it federates with directly and who it blocks, i saw some of the left and right ones have already started.
i imagine we’re going to get various sects with agreed upon universal rules so only people that enforce those rules are allowed to federate - then there will be offshoots and little sub-sections that you’ll have to sign up to one of those servers to get into that bit of the network. Could end up having a couple of alt accounts for the various bits of the network, like a porn account here that links to other safe nsfw servers then an account on .world or somewhere for more general chat, possibly a political one if your ideology is fringe… might actually turn out to be a good thing by making it harder for people to come across an ideological divide just to troll, they’d actually have to make a dedicated account somewhere.
I mean, if that’s the only rule that goes against the userbase, I’d be surprised. Early r3ddit was so wide open for so long, but as it grew so did the rules. With where we are here we will see off the wall rules imposed, posts removed, mod abuse, users and communities banned, etc. It’s just part of the growing process. Kind of tough but it has got to be an uphill battle to run a NSFW only instance with all that brings with it
With the cost of entry being so low for a lemmy instance, I could see people hosting their own niche areas that have no rules and just federating but who knows if even that will be allowed
as i understand it each server can choose who it federates with directly and who it blocks, i saw some of the left and right ones have already started.
i imagine we’re going to get various sects with agreed upon universal rules so only people that enforce those rules are allowed to federate - then there will be offshoots and little sub-sections that you’ll have to sign up to one of those servers to get into that bit of the network. Could end up having a couple of alt accounts for the various bits of the network, like a porn account here that links to other safe nsfw servers then an account on .world or somewhere for more general chat, possibly a political one if your ideology is fringe… might actually turn out to be a good thing by making it harder for people to come across an ideological divide just to troll, they’d actually have to make a dedicated account somewhere.