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  • BluJay320@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    You make a fair point, but the difference here is that we can always just go to a new instance that is more desirable. Mods and admins can power trip, but only within their own domain.

    And defederation is always an option

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      1 year ago

      Yeah. People should have a right to speak their mind, but on the Fediverse nobody is forced to listen and therein lies the difference, IMO.

    • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip
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      1 year ago

      Most instances aren’t going to defederate from the vast majority of the userbase. The various “we aren’t even going to pretend she is a 9000 year old vampire” instances are easy to defederate from because its almost nobody. But if 80% of the userbase will be lost to get rid of all the dog whistling? I mean… look at twitter. People will spin their refusal to walk away as an act of defiance and heroism.

      And you get that massive userbase by not being strict regarding hate and bigotry.