I was recently thinking about how amazing it is that with this decentralized community we would have no censorship from big corporations and then I asked myself: what about illegal content? The kind of content that really should not be shared? As an example, what if someone creates a Lemmy instance and starts creating a community around CP? Or human trafficking? How do we deal with it? I know that instances can choose with whom they can access the content, so if most popular instances blacklist that “illegal” instance its content wouldn’t be easily visible, but it would still be in the Fediverse. Also, will all popular instances have to be quick to blacklist these “illegal” instances? Isn’t that a little to difficult? If we go the other way, where they create a whitelist, wouldn’t that harm small legit instances? Is there a plan to fight off illegal content?
Wait I can block instances from showing up on my Lemmy.world homepage without having to ask Lemmy.world to block it? Is this a Lemmy specific feature? Or is this a common Fediverse feature? Will this also block that instance from showing up on my search? As an example: If I search for the abbreviation of CyberPunk and the “illegal CP” shows up on my search, I can also block that instance from ever showing up on my search?
I’m new to all of this so I’m not 100% sure about other ways of accessing the fediverse, but I’m on the mobile app Jerboa and if I click on the three dots next to a post before opening the post there’s an option to block instance or block the individual that made the post.
So far I’ve just blocked Joe Rogan, I’m tired of his nonsense lol
I think he will be my first block as well lol