They were one of the biggest userbases that was still federated.
That was pretty inevitable for a Canadian instance. I’m surprised things lasted this long.
This is my opinion on it. There was no way we’d be federated with a Canadian instance for long. Though, their defederation does seem to be the admin’s own emotional reaction as opposed to the actually reasonable legal issues they might face.
Yeah. Ppl were like “omg this is heinous, this is an obvious defederation”. https://sh.itjust.works/post/378141
Couple of things in that conversation:
Drawn child porn
I can just imagine those words being spoken by a prosecutor to a jury and things not going well for the defendant. Kinda scary how far removed my thoughts seem to be from the average person on this.
instances that allow abusive content is a red line for me.
Yeah, those poor GPUs being abused.
yeah i can’t believe what they say in their threads lmao “promoting abuse of underage individuals” said one, i was like… what??? holy fuck kek
Do you think their minds would explode if the sidebar started with a statement that this instance was anti child abuse in all forms?
maybe! i see rule 4 is basically that but they prolly don’t read it cuz they think there’s nothing worth reading in an instance where literal kids are being raped right now!
The discussion there makes me sad. On a practical level defederation is a reasonable inevitability, but the level of vitriol in there is neither productive nor healthy, for anyone.
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
I find it amusing how often these groups say “No bigotry” in their rules, but make the exception whenever it fits their beliefs. Almost like it’s virtue signalling or something.
Not to mention the predictable “No *phobia”. Which in of itself is intolerance of other views.
That’s an incredibly stupid point, my dude, ot to be a dick or anything.
Edit: i figured i might look like a dick if i leave it there so; no one cares about being intolerant, intolerance is a virtue. People care about what you are intolerant about.
I think their point is that it’s hypocritical how people often mean that (‘people should be intolerant of things I think are bad’) when saying the opposite (‘intolerance is bad’). For those who do care about intolerance and do think it’s bad - certainly not no one - it’s confusing and frustrating and sad.
Couldn’t agree more. What I see there is knee-jerk reactions and a lot of, well just like you put it, vitriol, which I think is the perfect way to describe it.
I’m disappointed honestly. I still think that Lemmy would be well served by some community flag other than NSFW that makes certain communities a little more hidden. I also do think it was a bit of a knee jerk reaction, but its hard to criticize when they can say “its Canada law”.
I also disagree with Canada law on this, but Canadians seem pretty happy to elect people who tell them what to think, so IDK.
Someone made a suggestion on here that a tag feature, where instances could add their own tags which could be used to mark content on a per-instance basis. These tags would have basic controls on what happens when a post/comment has one of these tags applied to them.
I definitely think this would be a great feature, though I have my doubts about it ever being developed.
Man it’s real sad to see where the Internet is going
It looks like we’ll become one of those “islands” in the so called fediverse. There’s the growing continent of Rexxit refugees across the pond.
But I’m okay with that. We don’t need to share space with far right lunatics this time, so we can focus on lewd stuff.
I’m well aware of it. Thanks for the heads up, nonetheless.
Literally what prompted me to make an account here. Would definitely rather be on an instance where they aren’t just doing a reddit% speedrun of terrible moderation
Is that bad?
You won’t see them anymore when you click “All”, but that’s about it.
Ah, defederated again.
Their loss
