Comment on Call to defederate from feddit.org over zionism
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 17 hours agowhether you as an instance owner have the right to police “your” users in this way.
I don’t run SDF. I’m just an enduser. Thanks for taking the time to write a thoughtful reply.
PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 17 hours ago
Oh, I didn’t mean you specifically, I didn’t realize it came across that way. Just that in general a lot of mods / instance owners seem to feel like communications on their server are “theirs,” to mold to be the way they want them to be.
There’s a responsibility you hold to the users of your system to keep the bullshit out. (And everyone’s definition of “bullshit” will be slightly different, which is why it gets tricky.) But roughly speaking, you need to be doing what your users want you to do, and your users need to be showing respect for your system and wishes and the social contract from their end. As soon as either side of that contract breaks down, it’s bad. And specifically in this case, there are instance owners who feel that it’s their job to make sure the opinions expressed on their server are in line with their own, and fuck the users if they don’t agree, because the users aren’t in charge.
This is very very wrong. My whole feeling on that, is why I felt the need to write up this whole mini-essay about it. As black-and-white right and wrong of an issue as Palestine is, I feel like it’s a bad precedent to set to say that the issue of which opinion is the “right” one and the feddit admins being on the other side has any bearing on this. It doesn’t. Simply the fact that they want to delete certain opinions is already enough for them to be in the wrong, in my opinion.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 14 hours ago
Cogent points. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.