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Mastodon.social would ban them, and if other instances don't police content sufficiently then Mastodon.social doesn't have to federate with them.
by pbtflakes 9y ago
Mastodon.social would ban them, and if other instances don't police content sufficiently then Mastodon.social doesn't have to federate with them.
- busterarm 9y agoThat doesn't sound very decentralized to me.
- pbtflakes 9y agoOther instances of Mastodon can make their own decisions in terms of banned content, and other instances can choose to not federate with them.
- busterarm 9y agoThat's kind of my point. You end up with the option of 1) it's centralized. Everyone only cares about who Mastodon.social federates with. How it's built to work doesn't actually matter. 2) It's centralized. Users wrestle control from Mastodon.social and everyone cares about who some other server federates with. 3) It's a balkanized mess. You spend all your time worrying about who you're federated with so that your content and the content you want to see become accessible. 4) It's decentralized, but nobody really bothers with banning anyone anyway, because it leads to the other scenarios and they are worse.
- daliwali 9y agoIt would defeat the purpose of federation if there's a different server for each political persuasion. Why bother with federation if you don't want to see anything you disagree with? Each server would be its own hugbox.
- smacktoward 9y agoThere is a big difference between "I would prefer not to be routinely confronted with literal threats to kill me" and "I demand my own hugbox."
- daliwali 9y agoThe problem with that is there is no practical difference between the two points of view. Both lead to balkanization and isolation.
- bitstacker 9y agoWhat do you think the purpose of federation is? I like federation because I can choose a server I like or run my own and still talk to people on other servers.
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