I feel like a lot of people coming over here from reddit (granted I’m one of them) don’t really understand what federation is. The admin (the peeps actually hosting and running the instance) can do whatever they want. And unlike reddit, if you disagree with them you can just move to another instance. As I understand it (and they posted a large thread explaining all this) Beehaw wants to keep their community small and regulated, and with the massive growth of other instances like ours coming in they felt overwhelmed. It’s totally understandable and we shouldn’t be dicks about it
The problem is, lots of popular communities were set up over there. There is a serious lack of content, and all of a sudden a ton of content is gone.
Literally not how federation works.
Nah its fine to bee selective.
Simply put, I disagree.
Here’s the fact of small groups that are made for the “outs”. The same pattern we’ve seen for every single “free speach” social media site. Bottom line is every social media site, has some level of what I’d agree is bad moderation that’s blatently banning people for say things like saying things to address police violence, income inequality etc… Things that are legitimate subjects that should be open to discussion.
However, 90% of people who get banned from social media, are people doing things that no one outside of their echo chamber want to be anywhere near, literal pro Nazi’s, White Supremicists etc…
The problem is, in general say if we magically turned all moderation off on say facebook, and let everyone back on, that would be relatively low impact, the non nazi’s would be 99%, the nazi’s would be the relatively small niche.
However, most people aren’t leaving their existing social media websites. Which means people looking for new social network sites, are disproportionately people that no one wants to be associated with. So when a new social media site opens up, promising not to moderate them… (Miwi, Truth, Gab, Parlor etc…). in 2 seconds it becomes flooded with people that, quite simply put scare off anyone who isn’t them away.
So long and short, in a new social network, if you don’t keep out the very extreme. You’ll never be able to develop a community around that isn’t extremes.
Those who think it’s a good idea, consider this.
Mastodon can be federated with Lemmy.
TruthSocial is running a modified instance of Mastodon.
Do you really want those or any other neighbors dropping in, unmoderated, or rather, moderated according to their own standards?
This might be a dumb question, but what is the difference between Lemmy and Mastodon federation vs federation between two Lemmy instances, for example?
Still new to the Fediverse, but here’s how I understand it.
- Lemmy is like Reddit
- Mastodon is like Twitter
- Matrix is like Discord
Damn those elite 2%ers…
