If censorship is what’s being criticized, it’s no different.
I hate when censorship comes for people I do like.
I love when censorship comes for people I don’t like.
it’s just become such a nanny instance that jumps on everyone’s shit.
Admins are fighting a flood of instances and users more interested in getting attention than participating in the community. Consequently, you’ll have power users ballooning the front page with click-bait. You’ll have instances choke full of reactionary content specifically intended to bait a flame war. You’ll have spammers plugging their own brands or working on behalf of some third party. And you’ll have the odd bot-farm or other automated account that’s just probing the Fediverse for gaps.
“Ah, but the individual users can always block what they choose”
Sure. Technically. But nobody wants to wake up every morning to a front page that’s full of shit. The spammers can bloat your inbox faster than the individual can flush it out. So Admins who step in and do a little public house cleaning - the Nanny work you hate - makes the website cleaner and friendlier for lay users that pop in now and then.
Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
We vote on who we want to defederate from. Our vote threads even have cool pirate themed images and stuff.
Willoughby@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
They even make less content an event so you can celebrate your own loss?
Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Things are done there by consent. I see that’s something you don’t approve of.
Willoughby@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
Seems kinda hypcritical.
p0358@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
By consent of others, whoever registered there will be forced to that outcome even if they disagree. I fail to see how that’s a good thing