Huh? Green means it has been blocked and needs no further action. Red means it needs attention. You might be reading too much into this.
Comment on 41% of fediverse instances have blocked threads so far!!!
JustSomePerson@kbin.social 6 months agoWhat a fucking hateful choice of colours. Green for blocking and red for allowing communication. Really shows what kind of perspective the creator has.
SeedyOne@lemm.ee 6 months ago
JustSomePerson@kbin.social 6 months ago
Everywhere else, red means stop and green means go. Here, the creator has chosen to reverse that to emphasize that they consider blocking to be good and allowing people to connect to be bad.
No attention is needed for the instances that are marked with red. They are federating.
calvinbacon@r.nf 6 months ago
I AM FROM THE INTERNET I CAN ONLY DO WHAT SIMON SAYS
BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social 6 months ago
The point is that it's portraying not blocking as an inherently negative thing, which isn't universally agreed upon at all. Plenty of people would say that they don't need any attention at all. It's not presenting objective in a neutral way, but rather labeling a group as bad.
Of course, it's probably fair to assume that the author has no intention of being neutral, but it's still valid grounds to criticize it as a data visualization.
sheepishly@kbin.social 6 months ago
I don't think I'd expect political neutrality from the admin of a website literally called "veganism" anyway.
SeedyOne@lemm.ee 6 months ago
You shouldn’t expect it from ANY site really.
SeedyOne@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Thanks for the clarification, your second to last line says it all. Sometimes it’s easy to forget that many online lack critical thinking skills and/or don’t consider the source when browsing. Better to accommodate the lowest common denominator when possible…but to expect that from a biased, private site is asking a lot IMHO.
Kethal@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yeah, the color scheme is the real clue there. It’s pretty subtle what their viewpoint is.