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!
Well, considering we were defederated from beehaw, and I don’t find our instance particularly negative or hateful in much of the content and users I’ve personally seen - I think it’s hard to paint a whole community with one brush stroke. Not that it’s not possible or even useful to do in some cases, but it’s not something that should be done willy-nilly. And I guess I like the idea of a more individualistic approach. That’s just my thoughts.
But the beauty of it is there are plenty of instances to try out; the fedi-universe is certainly an interesting concept I’m starting to wrap my head around.