Shoutout to All The Lemmy Servers (And Their Admins) - eviltoast
  • TwilightVulpine@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    That’s just a slippery slope fallacy. While some instances can be more or less defederation-happy, doing it to some instances does not mean every instance who resorts to defederation will eventually exclude all other instances. Many simply want to cut off hate speech and extreme violent content, and not everyone is interested in having sexual content, especially depending on what sort of stuff it is.

    It’s alarmism over something that would be normal in most other platforms, which just ban users and groups who post content that goes against the rules of conduct, something that happened even on the tiny niche forums and chatrooms of the past. But rather than being entirely excluded you get to stay in communities that fit your limits. The interaction of instances that are federated will ensure that the Lemmy ecosystem will be less of an echo chamber than reddit itself was.