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Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/ssg.dev/post/3lmuz3nr62k26

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 10 points 2 months ago (10 children)

I sort of feel like that's not really relevant. How would being decentralised make any difference, the government would just go after the server owners regardless of who they are. If the server owners didn't honour the takedown requests turkey would just ban the server IP and no one would be able to access.

Federation isn't a solution to every problem

[–] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 29 points 2 months ago (6 children)

How would being decentralised make any difference

You sign up on a server that isn't in Turkey and doesn't give a shit to respond to turkish demands.

Now turkey can only control the servers that are within it's countries, and has to submit requests to ALL of them rather than just one. And even then can't remove you from the rest of the federation.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk -4 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Right but my point is they would just submit the request to the host server. If the original is taken down then all the federated service will lose the comments as well.

If the host server just straight up ignores turkey then they'll block all servers that host Mastodon and say mastered on is a rogue element. Better you just remove the offending comment

[–] Cataphract@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago

lol how is capitulation the answer to authoritarianism but decentralization isn't? I feel like I'm missing something from your arguments because it just seems circular and all the while condemning the very infrastructure you're currently using on Lemmy (with obvious benefits) over centralized social-media.

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