• No server operator needs to federate with you.
  • No server operator needs to tolerate things they don’t want on their instance.
  • No user of an instance needs to personally curate their own extensive never ending blocklist of users and channels they don’t want to see.

Quit your pseudo-intellectual whining and choose what instance(s) work for you. If you think regularly interacting with shit content somehow helps you stay out of an echo chamber then go ahead and make a second account on those garbage instances full of hateful people. Then you can read both the decent servers and the trash ones and be the fedora wearing ackshually right fair and balanced uber nerd you always wanted to be.

Edit: The huge number of upvotes on this post compared to the low numbers on the whiney imposers’ posts is proof of exactly where this community places its priorities.

  • @[email protected]English
    -1•2 years ago

    Amazing.

    “I’m censoring people so that I can promote free speech!”

    Just admit that it’s not free speech. That’s just a roundabout way to justify your decision when there’s no justification required.

      • @[email protected]English
        1•2 years ago

        I think you have issues with reading comprehension. I haven’t bitched anywhere about any defederation, moderation, censorship or whatever done by instance owners.

        Obviously, it’s up to them and can lead to better content. It can also lead to echo chambers, but that’s an implementation detail.

        All I did was point out that censorship is not free speech. Free speech is an ideal that doesn’t work in the real world, and it’s fine to admit you’re not open to everyone having free speech.

        • @[email protected]English
          2•2 years ago

          I apologize - this was more of a general statement. “You’re free to build, or you’re free to complain, both are valid”. *Edit: And taking the recent hub-bub as a case in point re: the Fediverse stuff. Bleh, been a bit too meta recently.

          My issue was with curation not being free expression. This only holds for me if there are absolutely no other alternatives to express your ideas.