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You choose what instance you are on. Quit the pseudointellectual whining. (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by mrpants@sh.itjust.works to c/main@sh.itjust.works

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No server operator needs to federate with you.
No server operator needs to tolerate things they don't want on their instance.
No user of an instance needs to personally curate their own extensive never ending blocklist of users and channels they don't want to see.

Quit your pseudo-intellectual whining and choose what instance(s) work for you. If you think regularly interacting with shit content somehow helps you stay out of an echo chamber then go ahead and make a second account on those garbage instances full of hateful people. Then you can read both the decent servers and the trash ones and be the fedora wearing ackshually right fair and balanced uber nerd you always wanted to be.

Edit: The huge number of upvotes on this post compared to the low numbers on the whiney imposers' posts is proof of exactly where this community places its priorities.

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[-] aski3252@lemmy.ml 64 points 1 year ago

Completely agree, this whole entitled attitude about "we left reddit because censoreship hurr durr, now u do same thing, you have to do what we tell you" is really annoying..

Nobody is censoring you, you are free to join and visit whatever instances you want and watch their content.. You can even host your own instance where you federate with whoever you want, you have free access to the code.. But nobody is forced to host ANY content they don't want on the server THEY themselves pay for..

[-] riskable@programming.dev 28 points 1 year ago

we left reddit because censoreship hurr durr

The people leaving Reddit because of censorship did so long ago. These dissatisfied/censored people have a new home anyway... They can view child porn, people being brutally tortured/murdered, and make all the threats of violence they want on Twitter now. They just have to be careful not to insult the, "free speech absolutist" dictator or he'll have them banned.

The mass migration today is because of dissatisfaction with Reddit's decision to end 3rd party apps and specifically, the way in which they handled it. The dishonesty, the heavy-handed dictator-like seizure of protesting communities, the complete disregard for accessibility/moderation tools, etc.

To claim that people are leaving Reddit "because of censorship" isn't just missing the point, it's flat out wrong.

[-] anteaters@feddit.de 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They went to the cesspit voat and that went under like a turd. I wonder where they all went after that, probably back to Reddit or Discord.

[-] aski3252@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

I wonder where they all went after that

Gab is still around and I think there are a lot of private discord communities as well.

[-] Someology@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Lemmy is the first Reddit alternative most recent refugees have tried out, but it is clear that many existing Lemmy users do not want their platform to grow.

[-] Someology@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

There needs to be some clear guidance on this for newbies. As it is, you have to stumble across scraps of random discussions to learn about defederation and partial federation politics. You generally do this after you e already spent time on an account. Seriously, how is a person supposed to know what instance to choose up front?

this post was submitted on 28 Jun 2023

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