Comment on Some weird spam and christo-cultic propaganda. Would we defed from it?
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 10 months agoWould I find it weird? Yeah. Would I want to distance myself from it? Maybe. If I was the administrator of an instance with tens of thousands of users, I wouldn’t simply defederate if they kept their garbage spam on their instance. If instances made a habit of defederating with anyone they don’t like, we wouldn’t have a Fediverse.
andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
There’s true to your words. It’s just my opinion that every other actor in fediverse would benefit and won’t suffer from cutting them off. What can be the reason to enact such isolation? For some it’s piracy, or porn, or politics, or anything illegal. For me it’s 35k religious ads not kept in private or anything, but kept there to appear in everyone’s feeds. And seems like my opinion or argumentation are unpopular, so whatever.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Just sub to things you care about and ignore the rest. I almost never look at all, and if I do, it’s only on my local instance, so I pretty much only see stuff I opted into.
I recommend you do the same. Or just block the handful of communities you really dislike and continue using all.
Defederation is how we get silos like beehaw, which is antithetical to a federated platform. Defederation should know be used if an instance causes active harm (e.g. users constantly troll and admins are unresponsive). Having stupid content only impacts those who look at it, and it’s easy to block, trolls impact everyone.
andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I think it’s worth a block. Many think it isn’t.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Sure, then block it. Your decision doesn’t need to impact others.