There’s hardly any instances of any kind of size that aren’t ‘heavily censored’ (so to speak)
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zaugofficial@lemmings.world 18 hours ago
I agree. At some point we’re going to have to see a split between the heavily censored instances and the ones that let people say what they want.
Skavau@piefed.social 18 hours ago
zaugofficial@lemmings.world 18 hours ago
I know. People are afraid to make them out of fear of defederation.
Eventually, we’re going to have to accept that there will be different parts of the fediverse for different people. And that’s okay.
Skavau@piefed.social 18 hours ago
I know. People are afraid to make them out of fear of defederation.
So there’s clearly not enough of a local audience for it. I know many instances have specific political bias that preclude certain arguments fron being advanced to varying degrees (such as lemmy.ml, slrpnk.net, lemmy.dbzer0 etc) but there are also many general use instances amongst them, that are not defederated that really only ban people for hurling slurs and being abusive.
zaugofficial@lemmings.world 18 hours ago
The modlogs should give some insight into how much demand there is for instances that won’t censor people.
The fediverse as a whole is still tiny, so it may seem that getting defederated from the established instances is a death knell, but it isn’t.
owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 18 hours ago
There already has been. But it turns out the ones that value “freedom of speech” and “libertarianism” all end up relatively small and isolated, or turn into Nazi bars.
The majority of us are fine with letting instances and communities censor what they want. You can always create your own if you don’t like the way others do it, or you can join one of the instances that have been cut off from the rest of the Fediverse.
zaugofficial@lemmings.world 18 hours ago
Really? Can you give some examples?
Skavau@piefed.social 18 hours ago
hilariouschaos
zaugofficial@lemmings.world 18 hours ago
Checking their TOC, it looks like they don’t really value freedom of speech.