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What's the point of federation, when we will end up having large clumps of users in specific communites under instances, where the owners of the instance can censor information, and enforce their political ideological false authory over everyone. If somebody doesn't agree they can be banned without any valid reason. Federation is censorship resistant only to large government entities. We fail to realise that the issue with censorship is the owners and admins.

And yes, we can meke new instances that support our beliefs and that doesnt censor our speech, but then again we dont have an evenly distributed userbase. Having duplicate communities is cojnter intuitive anyways because it will confuse users. Lemmy is a failed project in my eyes unless they find a way to resolve these issues somehow.

Bad example but if i start a torrent, then the people who seed will own just as much of the torrent as i do. I'll be equal with the peers without any upper hand. It cant be taken down or censored. Thats the idea i had.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[โ€“] Jitterydork 11 points 1 year ago

"Concern Troll" has just entered my vocabulary

[โ€“] user -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been contributing to foss software for years. Maybe that gives some context. Im speaking genuenely, with no maliciois intent.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How have you contributed to foss? Open source repos (for example) are great because everyone from everywhere can contribute and help. Like everyone everywhere has the power to just start an instance if they're not happy with what's out there. That's a good thing. Power isn't determined by ownership of an instance but how many people use it, unlike sites like Reddit.

[โ€“] user 0 points 1 year ago

Donated and helped with translation here and there. Im not familiar with coding.