Somehow, I feel like the federated network is still centralized, because there is still censorship; it’s just distributed across more servers.

I mean, it definitely gives users more rights to free speech, and I’m not worried about privacy issues. However, the removal of content and the banning of accounts are things that are diminishing my passion for sharing my thoughts publicly(on reddit).

I just dont want this happened on here but I am seeing some…

  • @dilan
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    -211 months ago

    What if I am in the US lol

    • @breadsmasher
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      311 months ago

      If its a german instance they have to follow german law.

      Just like if you’re an american living in germany. You don’t get to follow american law in germany. You have to abide by the local laws.

      Take for example, the irish hosted lemmy defederated from another instance that allows posting … questionable/underage anime content. Its treated the same as CSAM under Irish law. Federating those instances would mean the admins of the irish instance would be liable for any data pulled over onto their instance.

      • @[email protected]
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        111 months ago

        This issue should be solved if you could just set lemmy to not cache federated NSFW images (without fully disabling NSFW on your instance) since then users would load the images from the remote server and not the homeserver.

        • @breadsmasher
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          111 months ago

          But that also relies on posts being tagged correctly

          • @[email protected]
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            111 months ago

            True, guess not caching remote content at all should be an option as well. Then you can just block caching for every instance that doesn’t enforce proper tagging.

            • @breadsmasher
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              011 months ago

              so… defederating. like is already happening

              • @[email protected]
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                211 months ago

                No, defederating would block all flow between instances. The problem is with hosting content that you don’t want to or arent allowed to host. Currently if I view a image from burggit, the image gets saved to the monero.town and then served whenever someone else views it from there, which is a problem. If instead every time someone wants to view that image, it gets pulled from burggit again, monero.town isn’t in trouble for hosting it anymore.