If so, do you consistently report it and get the feeling that it gets dealt with? Of course there are instances dedicated solely to being human trash
If so, do you consistently report it and get the feeling that it gets dealt with? Of course there are instances dedicated solely to being human trash
@ernest can only control what happens on the instances he controls, i.e. kbin.social and the others. If you’re on an instance, and find a magazine that is poorly moderated, that would be an issue to take up with That Instance and their Ownership/Moderation team. It’s not an issue for the software developer to be stepping in on.
Ernest can still block people on other instances, and whole instances themselves. If hateful people from hateful instances are intruding, we shouldn’t let that happen
No, he actually can’t. You’re confusing kbin, and kbin.social
He can absolutely choose to block people at the instance administration level, or defederate an instance, as the Owner and Administrator of kbin.social, or karab.in, or whatever other instances he might run.
There is no reasonable way, as the developer of the kbin software, that he can magically write into the source code that “nazis aren’t allowed” for instance. How would you even test for that, when somebody downloads the software, and tosses it up on their own server? He can’t control what people do with the software he writes, as long as they’re otherwise complying with the license he releases it under.
Could he put “nazis, bigots, and other assholes aren’t allowed to use this software” into the license? Probably, if he chose to, but it’s basically unenforceable.
It sounds like @Kara is just talking about defederation. Any instance in the fediverse can block connections to/from any other instance that they find to be excessively problematic. It should be used sparingly, but there are definitely cases where it is appropriate.